Re: Incorrect versioning

[David Coe <david@someotherplace.org>]

Justin Penney <justin@solve.net> writes:


> The current version is 1.2.0. The old version is 1.010. It was packaged as
> 1.10. So when i installed my newer 1.2 package... It said that i was
> downgrading. I realize that this isn't really a big issue but it's still
> annoying and might confuse some users.

If I understand correctly (I'm new at this too), this is what
"epochs" were created for.  Call your new version 1:1.2.0-1;
the epoch "1:" means it's newer than the epoch 0 (unepoched?)
versions.