Re: [Denemo-devel] The 0.9.6 release (was Re: Static Linking (was Re: tablature status (August 2012)))

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 08:12 -0600, Josue Abarca wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:49:18AM -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> ...
> > Should I be calling the tarball denemo-0.9.6rc1.tar.gz?
> > Jeremiah
yes there will be at least the final candidate once the translations are
in. The ~ convention Josue mentions seems a good idea. IIRC from last
time, you are able to upload the identical file with the correct name
and signature to ftp.gnu.org once we have given it a clean bill of
health?

Richard

> 
> If you do this, please add a tilde "~": denemo-0.9.6~rc1.tar.gz,
> because in debian tools (and others) "a tilde sorts before anything,
> even the end of a part".
> 
> "For example, 1.0~beta1~svn1245 sorts earlier than 1.0~beta1, which
>  sorts earlier than 1.0."
> 
> $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.9.6 gt 0.9.6rc1 && echo true || echo false
> false
> 
> $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.9.6 gt 0.9.6~rc1 && echo true || echo false
> true
> 
> This way I could package a release candidate and upload it to Debian,
> to try to get a wider audience to test it.
>