[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:15:47PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 21 April 2006 at 01:00, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:38:47 +0200
> > Roberto Togni <r_togni at tiscali.it> wrote:
> > 
> > > * Name: there are already some binary packages called pre8, so I propose
> > > to skip it and go to pre9 to avoid confusion.
> > 
> > BTW: we should kick those guys ass. This is exactly the
> > same behaviour that lead to the gcc two dot ninetysix fiasco
> > a few years ago.
> 
> That would be me and it was done on purpose. Explanation:
> mplayer -v still shows dev-CVS-date
> pre8 is only in RPM package version string, like this:
> 1.0pre8-0.7.20060418
> 0.x is to indicate, that it's not a full release, which will have
> 1.0pre8-1

You could just as well have used 1.0pre7-2...

> as version. This ensures smooth upgrades for RPM users. There'll be
> no confusion, don't worry.
> Not to mention this is in accordance with Fedora Extras packaging rules.

That doesn't make it correct...

Rich