[Gpe-list] Maemo package version numbering

[Graham Cobb]

As we have recently created releases of many components I thought that it was 
time I reflected that in the Maemo package version.  My plan is to give 
packages which correspond to releases versions of the form <release> (for 
example 0.90 or 2.4) and to give packages which are built between releases 
versions of the form <last-release>svn<date>.  That allows me to continue to 
create daily builds with increasing versions while keeping simple versions 
for people who use packages corresponding to releases.

If anyone can think of a problem with this please let me know.  I would also 
be interested to know how the debian packaging currently defines the 
versions.

One remaining question is what to use for the <release>.  One option is to use 
the release number of each component (for example 0.90 for gpe-calendar, 
0.115 for libgpewidget).  The problem with that is that the user doesn't get 
a feel for which versions go together: there is nothing in their mind which 
says "this is release such-and-such of GPE".

I would prefer that we assign release numbers for the whole GPE set, which I 
could then use in the package versions.  We could also do things like create 
a tag in SVN for the release and use the release numbers in bugzilla, so 
users could accurately report the release number with bug reports.

Thoughts?

Graham