On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:25, Tom Wesley wrote:
> Hey
>
> I've seen several queries regarding KDE's new split ebuilds and the
> version numbers used for specific packages.  It seems that all of the
> KDE 3.4 packages have been versioned as 3.4.
>
> Should kmail, kopete etc not be using their own version numbers with the
> meta-packages being versioned based on the kde release number?  
> IMO this would make more sense, especially when reading the kopete website, 
> finding the latest version is 0.9.2 and then noticing that portage only 
> has 3.4.
In my experience most KDE users have no idea offhand what the individual app 
versions are and which versions belong to which kde.org release. They'd be 
confused.

If a lot of users told me I'm wrong, I guess I'd be willing to concede this 
point...

BTW, what do other distros use?

Another problem is that there are a few KDE devs who are the same: they don't 
bother to put real version numbers on their apps (and especially libs), and 
they stay stuck at 0.0.1, or don't always receive a version number upgrade 
when they change. I can't find an example offhand now, but I remember seeing 
such before...

And a third problem: it'd make it much easier for us to make a versioning/dep 
mistake (think about updating 300 differently-schemed version numbers) 
without noticing.

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