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Re: About to merge with Debian's Subversion 1.6.9dfsg-1

 

Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Michael Diers wrote:
>>> subversion (1.6.9dfsg-1ubuntu0~svn1~karmic1) karmic; urgency=low
>> For this special case I recommend -1ubuntu0svn1.
> 
> Oh, maxb’s email reminded me I forgot to mention the ~karmic1 suffix.  I 
> recommend
> 
> subversion (1.6.9dfsg-1ubuntu0svn1) lucid
> subversion (1.6.9dfsg-1ubuntu0svn1~karmic1) karmic
> subversion (1.6.9dfsg-1ubuntu0svn1~jaunty1) jaunty
> 
> etc., considering all the previous versions to be “backports” of the lucid 
> package.
> 
> Anders

Oh dear.

    Juliet:
    "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet."
    Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

Anders, Max, thanks a lot for the explanation.

To me, encoding this sort of complex information in a _name_, seems
wrong, wrong, wrong. Isn't this an instance where Resource Description
Framework (RDF) or something similar should come into play?

What the hey, I guess I'll just follow your recommendations.

-- 
Michael Diers, elego Software Solutions GmbH, http://www.elego.de



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