[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:

[Brian T Glenn]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:45:11PM +0100, Alex Pimperton may have written:
> Brian T Glenn wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Alex Pimperton may have written:
> >>
> >>Is this something that's fixed in 1.0.9?
> >>    
> >
> >Those version numbers don't match up with the way dovecot is currently 
> >numbered. You are going to have problems using those version numbers 
> >after dovecot starts with stable release numbering.
> >  
> I'm no expert on Debian (and Ubuntu's) packaging systems but I believe 
> that  when a bugs are fixed or the package is patched by the Debian 
> maintainer it gets a -1, -2 etc added to the package name to keep track 
> of the patches.
> 
> This is how it's done for all Debian/Ubuntu packages.

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.

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