[Dovecot] Version numbering

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Thu Mar 29 12:19:44 EEST 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:30:24AM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:05:13AM +0300, Timo Sirainen (TS) wrote:
> TS> 
> TS> I don't think packaging is going to be that big of a problem. If the packagers 
> TS> can't handle that, then just don't package it. Development versions don't 
> TS> really need binary packages anyway.. And for those using the binary packages, 
> TS> the alpha/beta/rc in the version make it pretty easy to understand what kind 
> TS> of a release it is.
> 
> This will work just fine for FreeBSD ports!

Same for pkgsrc.

The most important thing though is that the latest format *release* is
always supported with security/critical fixes, so people are not "forced"
to track RC's as they are now with 1.0.

But there can always be a parallel -devel package for those interested.

	Geert
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