[Dovecot] Version numbering

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 02:46, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> After v1.0 is released, I can finally get back to sane version numbers.
> But any comments on which one is better:
>
> a) Postfix-style: "1.1.UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD" -> 1.1.0 (stable)
>
> b) Odd-even numbering: 1.1.x (unstable) -> 1.2.0 (stable)
>
> With a) style the releases could be done by simply copying a nightly
> snapshot to releases/ directory and announcing the changes since the
> last release. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Also as a packager, I must remark on the ambiguity of (a). Normally letters 
come after numbers in order. Luckily in Debian, it can be transformed 
into "1.1~UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD", where "~" is ranked lower than even the empty 
string.

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