[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Brian T Glenn wrote:

> 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.
>
>

For the record, the current debian version is 1.0.beta9-1

And I don't intend to use the epoch (1:) mechanism.  1.0.beta will be
followed by 1.0.rc which will be followed by 1.0.release


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