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  • Handling upstream versioning scheme 2.40c >> 2.40b >> 2.40

    From Andrius Merkys@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 23 08:00:01 2022
    Dear Mentors,

    I am maintaining package c2x, which has the following versioning scheme:

    2.40c >> 2.40b >> 2.40

    This is correct order as per 'dpkg --compare-versions'. However, if I
    add '+ds' repack suffix (I need to), the order becomes reversed. Thus
    'uscan' behaves as expected because it knows how to remove the '+ds'
    suffix, but 'dpkg-genchanges' complains:

    dpkg-genchanges: warning: the current version (2.40c+ds-1) is earlier
    than the previous one (2.40+ds-1)

    The naming scheme could be adjusted to add '.' before the letter in
    version string (2.40c -> 2.40.c), but I cannot craft a watch file which
    could perform this.

    Any pointers are welcome.

    Best,
    Andrius

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  • From Mattia Rizzolo@21:1/5 to Andrius Merkys on Sun Feb 27 18:30:01 2022
    On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 08:53:26AM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote:
    dpkg-genchanges: warning: the current version (2.40c+ds-1) is earlier
    than the previous one (2.40+ds-1)

    mh, yeah, that one's annoying.

    The naming scheme could be adjusted to add '.' before the letter in
    version string (2.40c -> 2.40.c), but I cannot craft a watch file which
    could perform this.

    I'm not sure if that's the correct answer to your problem, but this
    extra rule seems to work on src:c2x:

    uversionmangle=s#([a-z])$#\.\1#

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    Mattia Rizzolo

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  • From Andrius Merkys@21:1/5 to Mattia Rizzolo on Wed Mar 2 09:10:01 2022
    Hi Mattia,

    On 2022-02-27 19:21, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
    On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 08:53:26AM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote:
    The naming scheme could be adjusted to add '.' before the letter in
    version string (2.40c -> 2.40.c), but I cannot craft a watch file which
    could perform this.

    I'm not sure if that's the correct answer to your problem, but this
    extra rule seems to work on src:c2x:

    uversionmangle=s#([a-z])$#\.\1#

    This worked, thanks a lot!

    Best wishes,
    Andrius

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