On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:39:59 +0100 João Miguel via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A 2016-09-01T23:57:07 +0200, Magnus Therning escreveu: > > > > When packaging Haskell packages there's a bit of a twist to the version > > numbers that I'm looking for a solution to. > > > > Upstream versions have two numbers, a version number (set by the > > upstream developer) and an "xrev" that's bumped when minor changes are > > made to packages on Hackage (Haskell's CPAN/PyPi/RubyGems/...). > > > > Then the packaging has a release. > > > > So far I've been using versions of the form > > > > <upstream version>_<xrev>-<pkgrel> > > > > But that isn't good enough, `pacman` has for instance reported that's > > > > ~~~ > > warning: haskell-vector-algorithms: local (0.7_1-2) is newer than haskell-core (0.7.0.1_0-1) > > warning: haskell-monadrandom: local (0.4_2-1) is newer than haskell-core (0.4.1_0-1) > > ~~~ > > > > which isn't correct since > > > > 0.7 < 0.7.0.1 > > 0.4 < 0.4.1 > > > > It seems `pacman` treats underbar like a period, which isn't at all what > > I was hoping for. > > > > I'm hoping for some help to find something better. Any suggestions on > > how I should do this properly? > What do you think about making that xrev part of the pkgrel? Instead of > 0.7_1-2 you'd have 0.7-1.2 < 0.7.0.1-0.1. And even if haskell-core > continues using that underscore, 0.7-1.2 < 0.7.0.1_0-1. > > It's not very common to have a decimal Pkgrel, and I'm not sure if it is > good practice, but I've used it, in fact for Haskell packages in > particular. > > Regards, > João Miguel pkgrel is for Arch specific changes, changes from upstream should be part of the pkgver.
