[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:

[Ben Winslow]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:54:21 -0400
Brian T Glenn <glenn-dovecot at delink.net> wrote:
> This is correct. However, the current version of Dovecot is 1.0.beta9 
> not 1.0.9. 1.0.9 implies revision 9 of the release version of 1.0, which 
> is not correct. The -1, -2, etc is used to denote a new version of a 
> package with the same upstream code version. This is used mainly for 
> fixing packaging errors or rarely for adding a patch to the upstream 
> code.
> 
> When dovecot is released as 1.0, your package version number will not 
> allow you to upgrade because it will think you are already running a 
> newer version.

Well, Debian/Ubuntu have a mechanism to get around that (projects will
sometimes completely change the way they do version numbering), but in
Debian unstable (and probably in Etch), the package versions are
actually numbered like '1.0.beta8-4'.

-- 
Ben Winslow <rain at bluecherry.net>
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