[maemo-developers] Problems with the fremantle autobuilder...

[From: David Greaves]

Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> On May 26, 2009, at 13:53, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> 
>> I suppose that if a package is rejected, we can upload it with the
>> same version number ? Requiring to increment the version on each
>> failed/rejected upload would seem strange IMHO :)
> 
> Why would you want to upload a package with the same version number?  
> Incrementing the version number is the purpose of the version number,  
> so of course you would want to change the version number every time  
> there is a new package.

The version number is incremented when an app is packaged _and shipped_.

Submitting to the autobuilder to 'check it builds' is similar to running gcc to
'check it compiles'. You don't increment the version number each time you do
that. (If we did that I would run out of numbers!)
Then, once built you can do a test install and see if you need to tweak a path
or something; again you don't record all that in different changelog entries.

IMHO promotion/publish is the only time an autobuilder should refuse to run if
the version is <= the last published version.

David
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