Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] kbuild: Improve version string logic | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:48:18 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:45 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > I think adding the + unconditionally will also break things like > > debian's make-kpkg, for instance, since the + would get propagated into > > the package version which reserves the + for something else. > > Are you sure?
No, I'm not.
> AFAIK it would be propagated into the package _name_, where > it is allowed. And even if it were part of the package version, it would > be in the "upstream" part of the version number, where it is also allowed. > > The only reserved use of "+" I'm aware of is in the Debian part of the > package version. > > But I have not used make-kpkg in ages, so I'm not 100% sure how that builds > the package version. I could be that it duplicates the kernel version in > both the package name and the upstream part of the package version, but > that should still be OK.
That may all well be true. I wasn't even aware of the distinction between debian and upstream part of the version :)
I do, however, remember no end to trouble with autoversion and make-kpkg so eventually gave up on using it entirely.
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