Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (83 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 13, 08 16:00:33 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Jan Matejek wrote:
> > i have a problem with one of my packages, python-openssl: the previous
> > version was called 0.7a and the current one is 0.7.
>
> Bad versioning policy from upstream.
>
> > However, in rpm's (and zypp's) view 0.7a > 0.7 and the package will
> > break distribution upgrade because it won't let itself be "downgraded".
>
> You just can't package such pre releases with their official
> 'version'. Call them 0.6_0.7a or similar instead.

... which would have helped at an earlier stage, ...
As a workaround, you could name the current version '0.7final' or perhaps
'0.7.0' already works.

        cheers,
                Jw.

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