Re: Q about policy; revision numbers
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:32:58PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> Aaron Van Couwenberghe <vanco@sonic.net> writes:
>
> > Hey all -
> >
> > Is it legal, according to debian policy, to have package revisiion numbers
> > in a form besides '-1 -2 -3 ....' etc? For example, suppose I have a package
> > that will be taken from CVS every time, and I want to make the revision the
> > date, '-990705' for example.
>
> If you do this, make sure that you consider that the year 2000 is just
> around the corner. This would create a decrease in the revision
> number.
>
Yep, remember Y2K! ;)
Maybe it should be '-19990705' ??
Mike
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