Tilde in version
The special character tilde (~) will be available for use in version representing a negative version token. This will simplify complicated rules which abuse the version and the release tags. (For example, using foo-2.5.99.2 instead of the foo-2.6~beta2). There already exists a patch but it needs more test coverage.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Jeff Johnson
- Definition:
- Discussion
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 5.3
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
5.4.12
- Started by
- Jeff Johnson
- Completed by
- Jeff Johnson
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rpm5 already has pluggable versioning so that either traditional rpmvercmp, enhanced rpmvecmp including punctuation, or even what dpkg uses can be plugged already. A plugin with twiddles just isn't that hard to do. *shrug*
The harder design issue is defining how inter-pluggable versions should be compared.
Dig out the proposal's and links for LSB versioning in the 4.0 packaging "standard".
Find the blog that describes the strange things that perl does with versioning.
DIg out the Distepoch: and precedence permutation links from <email address hidden>
Point to Mancoosi CUDF version typed as an INT to show how complex version changes really are.
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* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
