[maemo-developers] The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

[From: David Greaves]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:20 +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 30 October 2009 11:44:17 Juha Kallioinen wrote:
> >> And a perfectly good one too! :) It's useful not to change the upstream
> >> package version too much so that it's easier to see that a package could
> >> use updating.
> >
> > I agree with all Juha's points (but I would, wouldn't I!).
> 
> Simplest solution I can see, whilst still giving the user some
> indication of version number (3.4.1 tells you something over 0.0.1):
> the Application Manager only shows things of the form (\d+)(\.\d+)*?
> 
> So, the example of 2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu6maemo1 would
> just appear as 2.0.0 in the view.

/me would be confused.

Why is it upgrading 2.0.0 to 2.0.0 *again* ?

David
(Who presumably wouldn't see the -local_bugfix1 and -local_bugfix2
suffixes)