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

[From: Joseph Charpak]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 14:04 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

> 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.
> 

Because if it takes 20 attempts to autobuild correctly we don't want to
burn through twenty numbers like foo-maemo1 through foo-maemo20.

Once we've successfully autobuilt, our *next* change will have an
incremented number e.g. maemo2. and if that takes 20 times to get
autobuilt correctly it should still be just maemo2, not maemo21 nor
maemo42. But based on other emails it sounds like the system is working
the way I've described, *successfully* autobuilt packages prevent the
re-use of that particular version number. Packages that are not built
successfully do not prevent the reuse. And by successfully autobuilt I'm
assuming we mean successfully built by the extras-devel autobuilder.

Joseph Charpak
jcharpak at worldnet.att.net