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Re: Pending packages status
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:44:37PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:18:28PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> I have a suggestion:
>>>>
>>>> foo-1.0-0.1
>>>> foo-1.0-0.2
>>>> foo-1.0-0.3
>>>> foo-1.0-0.4 << ok, it's ready
>>>> foo-1.0-1 << maintainer rebuilds the package with release=1,
>>>> and sends a 'Please upload' email
>>>
>>> That's fine with me, but I don't think either upset or setup will
>>> grok the .n usage.
>>
>> IIRC, setup works exclusively by curr/prev/test and doesn't parse
>> versions at all.
>
> Huh? I haven't looked at the code recently but unless there has been
> a change, setup does understand version numbers. At the very least,
> it reads them from files on disk when there is no setup.ini file.
Ah. Seems IDRC.
Max.