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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

As suggested by Wayne, is there any objection if version on daily build
PPA become 5.0-alpha-{repo version} or 4.99-alpha-{repo version} ?
It will allow daily build to have a higher version number than 4.0.XX
version available on distro.

Thanks for your comments,

-------- Message transféré --------
Sujet : Re: KiCad PPA: version number for daily builds
Date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:55:36 -0500
De : Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
Pour : Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>

Jean-Samuel,

The main problem I foresee with using a 4.xx number is that users may
think this is a new version 4 stable release.  We should try to avoid
that if possible.  Maybe a better choice would be to use something like
4.99-alpha-{repo version} or 5.0-alpha-{repo version}.  This would
indicate to the user that they are dealing with development builds and
should solve your package numbering issue.  Anyone else have a better idea?

Cheers,

Wayne

On 2/8/2016 12:19 PM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote:
> Dear Wayne,
> 
> 
> As you know I maintain PPA for KiCad daily build. Actualy the version of
> the package is producted with a version number like
> "0.201602081417+6543~42~ubuntu15.10.1"
> 
> with:
> 
> 0.{build date} + {rev of kicad} + {rev of my packaging repo}  + ubuntu
> version.
> 
> Since version 4.0.1 is now a part of future Ubuntu 16.04, the daily
> package is no more the more recent version...
> What do you think if I change the starting "0." with "4.99." ?
> As I understand, next version is 5.X so it should not be bad if I choose
> 4.99 ?
> 
> What do you think about this ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> JS
> 
>