From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 40419 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2016 18:04:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 40408 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jun 2016 18:04:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=adaptation, our X-HELO: mail-in-06.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-06.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:04:26 +0000 Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3rYwbV0rNszvGf for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-15.arcor-online.net (mail-in-15.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.55]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11322539039 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:04:22 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-15.arcor-online.net 3rYwbT6cZdz3bjN Received: from Gertrud (p54B478AF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.180.120.175]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-15.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3rYwbT6cZdz3bjN for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:04:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal References: <8b4723b2-1bd5-3604-1deb-cfd0a1c7b9d9@dronecode.org.uk> <20160621120321.GL3667@calimero.vinschen.de> <57694A7B.6050500@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <57694A7B.6050500@redhat.com> (Eric Blake's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:08:59 -0600") Message-ID: <87a8iequzj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.94 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2016-06/txt/msg00079.txt.bz2 Eric Blake writes: > 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). Oh please not. I've looked into this as I thought it would be helping a few things. The bummer is that once you've introduced that epoch part to any package, there is no way to drop it again. I'd rather keep a list of exceptions someplace for those rare cases where the versioning algorithm doesn't do the right thing. Actually, I'm already doing it for the Perl distributions to override dodgy information in metadata about dependencies. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf Blofeld V1.15B11: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada