[SailfishDevel] Release versioning best practice?

Thomas Tanghus thomas at tanghus.net
Tue Jan 14 11:34:52 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:28 Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> As far as I understand, the notation used is
> major.minor.patch-packageversion, with the packageversion  reserved
> for the packager (changes to spec/yaml/ files).
> 
> Since you are both the packager and the developer, you can always leave it
> to 0. Maybe, if you only fix packaging issues without touching the code,
> you could bump it instead of the patch version.
> 
> I would bump the patch version number, and reset the packaging number to 0.

Yes, that sounds reasonable. Thanks
> 
> Best regards,
> Luciano
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> > When packaging a bugfix release what is the best practice?
> > 
> > 1. Just bumping the release number so the package name goes from harbour-
> > appname-0.1-1.armv7hl to harbour-appname-0.1-2.armv7hl
> > 
> > 2. Bump minor version from e.g. harbour-appname-0.1-1.armv7hl to harbour-
> > appname-0.1.1-1.armv7hl
> > 
> > 3. Both version and release from harbour-appname-0.1-1.armv7hl to harbour-
> > appname-0.1.1-2.armv7hl

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Thomas Tanghus


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