From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57694A7B.6050500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160621120321.GL3667@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On 06/21/2016 06:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> * 'curr', 'prev' and 'test' don't make sense on a per-version basis. So I
>> suggest a separate file for these version overrides (versions.hint?)
>
> Ideally we wouldn't need something like "prev" at all since the version
> number itself is sufficient to specify what's curr and what's old.
Except when upstream version numbers go backwards. We'd have to adopt
something like Fedora's "epoch" numbering if we want our version numbers
to always be increasing (by bumping the epoch any time upstream versions
go backwards).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-20 15:28 Jon Turney
2016-06-21 12:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 13:49 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 15:32 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:09 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2016-06-21 14:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 18:04 ` Achim Gratz
2016-06-21 18:27 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-30 12:24 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-31 19:14 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-01 17:15 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-08 19:30 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-09 10:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-09 11:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-12 13:29 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:29 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-08 17:00 ` Achim Gratz
2017-04-12 20:51 ` Ken Brown
2017-04-13 6:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-17 6:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 5:17 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 15:14 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:12 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 16:29 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 15:37 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-19 18:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 22:23 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-18 16:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 17:16 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 18:08 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-22 13:44 ` Eric Blake
2016-12-10 22:42 ` How to override previous version? David Rothenberger
2016-12-11 0:03 ` Jon Turney
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