[gentoo-dev] Re: Live source based ebuild proposals

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> posted
20090213222233.40efa9fd@snowmobile, excerpted below, on  Fri, 13 Feb 2009
22:22:33 +0000:

>> > How do I track an upstream who has a 0.34 branch (which is equal to
>> > or ahead of the most recent 0.34.x release)  a 0.36 branch (which is
>> > equal to or ahead of the most recent 0.36.x release)
>> 
>> In those cases is enough take the package version and add one w/out
>> requiring any additional version component...
> 
> Be specific. Explain how this works when, say, 0.34.4 is current, you
> have a 0.34.5_live and 0.34.5 comes out.

Luca, I didn't follow this bit either.  The way I read your "add one" 
Ciaran's example went off the mark, but then my read didn't work too well 
either, so if you could fill in the concrete numbers you had in mind, it 
will hopefully clarify things. (Add one /where/, to which segment of the 
version?)

Being as concrete in the examples as possible helps.  It might seem to go 
on needlessly, but when the alternative is not being sure what you were 
talking about and thus possibly going off on a tangent...  To Ciaran's 
credit, he's at least using concrete version numbers/strings in his 
examples, so there's no mistaking what he had in mind.  Unfortunately, 
without this concreteness I think it's just going to be yet another 
argument in a circle, and I think/hope everybody's agreed there have been 
enough of those on this subject already.

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