[arch-haskell] Fwd: RFQ: Proposal for new versioning of packages

[Nicola Squartini]

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 07:07:48PM +0900, Nicola Squartini wrote:
> > Release numbers would still be reset on adding:
> >
> > xrev == 0                           -->
> > haskell-zlib-0.5.4.2-76-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> > add xrev == n && n > 0    --> haskell-zlib-0.5.4.2-1.n-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> > add <next ver>, xrev == 0 -->haskell-zlib-<next ver>-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> >
> > The only concern that I have with your versioning is that having 0.x in
> the
> > release number might suggest that the package is still in a testing
> stage.
> > And I make xrev == 0 first class (not adding the ".n") because I believe
> > Hackage revisions are ugly and should not exist.
> > Anyway, whatever scheme you choose it's good for me :)
>
> It's addition after bump of x-revision that I worry about:
>
> xrev == 0                 --> haskell-zlib-0.5.4.2-76-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> add xrev == n && n > 0    --> haskell-zlib-0.5.4.2-1.n-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> rebuild                   --> haskell-zlib-0.5.4.2-2.n-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> add <next x-rev>          -->
> haskell-zlib-0.5.4.2-1.<n+1>-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> add <next ver>, xrev == 0 --> haskell-zlib-<next ver>-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
>
> As you see, if the release is put before the x-rev and the release
> number is reset on add, then we end up going backwards in version
> numbers.
>
> /M
>
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