[maemo-developers] The issue of version strings

[From: Niels Breet]

On Thu, October 29, 2009 09:01, Martin Grimme wrote:
> Hi,
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> hmm, what's so bad about a simple date for a version number? Ubuntu does
> it, (Open)Solaris does it, and I started doing it, too, because I found it
> less confusing than having version numbers such as e.g. 0.96.5.

Sane version numbers should at least not look like this:
2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu6maemo1

And yes, this is an actual package version number ;)
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> Martin
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- Niels