[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:

[Brian T Glenn]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:05:52PM -0400, Ben Winslow may have written:
> 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'.

Yes, the 1: mechanism. The OP didn't make it clear that Etch was using 
anything besides x.y.z.

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