[aur-general] Upstream version numbers that break pacman version comparison

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On Tue Nov 22 08:07:20 UTC 2016 Bennett Piater bennett at piater.name wrote:
> On 11/22/2016 08:58 AM, brent timothy saner via aur-general wrote:
> > what i'd recommend is instead use 8.5 -> 8.5.1 -> 8.5.2
> >
> > and then have a _pkgver= variable with the actual string, if it's needed
> > later in the build. i.e.:
>
> It's ugly, but I guess bumping epoch is the only solution here.
>
> Cheers,
> Bennett

Dear god no.

In this case, the project maintainers themselves luckily stepped in,
[1] but bumping epoch on every major release *is* the ugliest thing
you could do. Once you add it, that "13:9.4pl3-3" will follow and
you'll never get rid of it. You'll have to start a new package.

It's one of only *two* variables with a red warning on the Wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#Version

The "8.5.pl3-1" would have been a very standard way of solving this,
and the suggested more plain "8.5.3-1" is fine as well. With JDK/JRE,
[2][3] I personally do (or get to do) 8u0 -> 8u1 -> 8u2, etc., as you
only get that inconsistent "u0" with one release, but the thing will
go on for 3-4 years. [4]

[1] = https://coq.inria.fr/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5221
[2] = https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jdk/
[3] = https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jre/
[4] = http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

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