[oe] [oe-commits] org.oe.dev prismstumbler: add 0.7.4pre1

[Koen Kooi]

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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:

>>> That is against our versioning policy, this way you can't upgrade to 0.7.4 when it gets
>>> released[1]. Use _0.7.3+0.7.4pre1 instead.
> 
>> I remember we had these kind of trouble with ipkg before.
> 
>   Why we and why ipkg? Any packaging system which tries to do its work
> well hits into such issues. In this regard, OE follows Debian's way to
> handle this. (Even though I was unable to find exact best
> practices to resolve such cases, they only mumble that it should be
> done: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-versions ;
> anyway, + notation is what actually being used).
> 
>   I'm not sure how other packaging systems solve this, for example,
> look at FC6 RPM pile shows that they have *pre* stuff without clearly
> distinguishable pattern of handling it syntactically. But it's known
> where that leads to - to inability to upgrade to a new distro release.
> 
>> Wouldn't it be better
>> to make it possible to handle this properly? I guess we will run into this again
>> and again in future.

It would be best if upstream (prismstumbler in this case) would use proper versioning to
start with, but if that is not possible we can paper over it in OE.

regards,

Koen
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