Please raise version number above RPM releases

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 2021-07-02 at 12:36 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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 :)

Ok, thank you, this will help us a lot.

> 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.
> 

I suppose Gentoo will wait for that happen before switching over then.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny