Please raise version number above RPM releases

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Michał,

On Sun, 2021-06-27 at 08:36 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> We've been packaging the RPM's debugedit executable as 'debugedit'
> since 2006.  This means that the versions of debugedit packages
> in Gentoo have corresponded to RPM releases.
> 
> Now, we'd like to switch to your version.  However, the problem is that
> you've restarted versioning -- at least from our perspective.  If we
> added debugedit-0.3 to Gentoo today, it would be seen as an older
> version that the 'old' debugedit-4.16.1.3 (i.e. rpm's debugedit).
> 
> There are hacks around this but they're all particularly ugly.  Hence,
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to you to raise
> the version number above the current RPM version, i.e. version 5.* or
> 6.* (if you take rpm5 into consideration, it is pretty dead though).
> 
> While I do realize the problem's on our end, it's non-trivial to fix
> because of backwards compatibility requirements we have.  And as I said,
> workarounds are particularly ugly and confusing, so I'd rather avoid
> them if possible.

Thanks for bringing that up. I think it is fine to make the first
official release debugedit 5.0. It will make us look like a really
mature project :)

Before the first formal release I am doing a few more cleanups, just
simple stuff like making sure we are checking all errors, etc. And I
would like to make sure there are command line equivalents for the few
remaining RPM environment variables used in find-debuginfo:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27637
There is also one bug reported against Fedora where we fail to produce
the main source file in some cases when processing DWARF5:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1966987
For which I have a partial patch, but I am unsure if it is complete.

Cheers,

Mark