[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 22 April 2006 at 13:04, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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...

No. That'd be a second revision of the 1.0pre7 package.

> > 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...

As long as mplayer -v output is correct, I don't think that it matters.

Regards,
R.

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