On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 12:31:04PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 10:33:38AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > I'm personally very in favor of this; of course my usual refrain > > here is that we should *try* new things and have the ability > > to back them out if they don't work (the latter bit is what the > > current system doesn't support). > > You know, we could easily _start_ supporting the thing you want if we > switched from "Epoch is a horrible confusing hack that should never get > used" to "We increment Epoch every time instead of Release (and don't > reset back to 1 on new versions)". Ok, another random/crazy/likely stupid idea for the same outcome: the possibility to go backwards in our packaging. What if we inverted version and release? So -2.1-1 become -1-2.1? This way if we make the version be auto-generated using date/time+git hash in the build system and release be the upstream's version we should be able to go up and down as much as we would want. Told you it was a crazy idea :) Pierre _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
