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

[From: Luca Donaggio]

Why not simply telling "minor release update" whenever the version upgrade
is in the epoch part only?

Luca Donaggio

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com> wrote:

> 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<g%2B770 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)
>
>
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