Ticket #5958 defect new

Opened 9 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

Versioning scheme in PPA .deb packages does not allow distro upgrades

Reported by: radix Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: release management Keywords: ppa packaging
Cc: radix Branch:
Author: Launchpad Bug:

Description

We currently have packages following a version scheme like

<major>-1~ppa<N>~<ubuntuname><N>

Examples of this have been

twisted - 12.0.0-1~ppa2~lucid1

and

twisted - 12.0.0-1~ppa1~precise1

(Apparently we did a revision changing the packaging material in the lucid packages and bumped the ppa1 to ppa2). 

radix@chell:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 12.0.0-1~ppa2~lucid1 gt 12.0.0-1~ppa1~precise1 && echo left is greater than right
left is greater than right

We should try to make sure that at any given point in time, if a user upgrades his distro (from / two versions that we build for), and re-enables the PPA, he should get the new distro's packages.

Change History

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Changed 9 months ago by DefaultCC Plugin

  • cc radix added

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Changed 9 months ago by radix

Maybe a better version scheme would be

<native version>-1~ppa<ubuntu version NUMBER>-<our packaging revision>

Like:

12.0.0-1~ppa10.04-2

and

12.0.0-1~ppa12.04-1

This would allow us to increment that last number for when we make changes to the packaging material while allowing us to upgrade nicely.

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