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From: Hanspeter N. <fi...@sn...> - 2010-02-22 22:57:24
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Another alternative to dealing with alpha/a, beta/b, RC/rc names in software versions is to put the descriptor into the revision field. So freeciv-2.2.0-RC1 under this mechanism would end up being Version: 2.2.0 Revision: 0.0rc1.1 The first 0 in revision means that when the final release is out, a Revision of 1 will automatically supersede all previous versions. The second 0 is not necessary, but gives a little extra wiggle room, the first 1 is the release candidate version (or a1, b3, etc), and the trailing 1 works like revision normally does, keeping track of changes to the info file. I used this setup with the firefox3 beta/rc packages w/ no problems. Hanspeter |