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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Semantic versioning is a new fad. |
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I believe it's already been there for a while. It just didn't become |
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a standard soon. |
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> Certain upstreams still think that |
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> 5.10 is a lower version that 5.2. Perl used to be notorious for doing |
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> this, but they've partially changed in some places but not others. |
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> The rules are a mess because they need to a reasonable job of dealing |
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> with all the crazy. |
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But these rules may no longer be applicable with the current packages. |
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Besides I think we can just enforce using 3 digits on versioning |
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ebuilds when we see a package that uses both 2 digits and 3 digits. |
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