Re: [Madwifi-devel] Versioning for madwifi

[Axel T. <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:27:23PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> >madwifi (-ng) started official life at version 0.9.0,
> >congratulations!  :)
> >
> >Unfortunatley I had already surpassed 0.9.x by using the modinfo
> >versioning of ath_pci (I think). Anyway speaking in packaging terms
> >I will need to introduce an epoch to recitify this.
> >
> >But what about madwifi-old? The announcement still says that there
> >are corner cases where this needs to be used, and it makes sense to
> >offer packages on the latets madwifi-old code (BTW RH7.3-RH9 and
> >RHEL3 wouldn't build madwifi-ng for some time, I'll check to see if
> >this is fixed with 0.9.0).
> >
> >The version of madwifi-old should be something less than
> >"0.9.0". Could you dictate such a version to be used
> >semi-officially for madwifi-old? Maybe 0.8.0?
>=20
> Its hard to dictate something that does not and will not exist, just
> choose the number most comfortable for you.

I'd prefer this to be given upstream. Otherwise when say the Debian
packager is faced with the same issue he will have to invent another
scheme.
--=20
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net