Re: ppas, version numbers, releases and validation.linaro.org

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle michael.hudson@linaro.org wrote:

Another question I have is around version numbers.  Currently we're using version numbers like 0.2-0ubuntu0~zyga1.  I don't really see why the "zyga" is in there :) I think simply dropping the zyga and using versions like 0.2-0ubuntu0~1 would be fine, or if we want to know who uploaded a particular version we can use things like 0.2-0ubuntu0~2mwhudson.

One practice is to have something in version that gives some hint about the origin of the package (if its not from the main ubuntu/debian archive). So if a package goes into zyga/ppa you could use ~zyga1; if it goes into validation ppa you could use ~val1 or ~lv1 or something more verbose.