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Re: [Shorewall-devel] [RFC] Shorewall patch (point) releases
From: Ed W <lists_at_nospam>Date: Fri Jul 20 2012 - 07:46:49 GMT
To: shorewall-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
On 19/07/2012 15:31, Tom Eastep wrote:
> It has been my practice for some time to always upload all of the
> packages when one of them changes. This includes patch releases such as
> 4.5.5.3.
>
This is really an argument about whether to version individual
components or the distribution as a whole...
I just saw an almost identical question on the Perl blogs rss feed -
can't remember which project it was for, but the question again was
whether to mark the whole release of all packages with a version, or to
version the individual components. Ahh, yes, just remembered, the sub
issue was then how to put the version numbers into the individual
modules so that lib-1.2.3 is known to be part of distribution-1.2.5
The majority opinion was that there are some thorny problems with having
two part version numbers. I think the same also in your case here, it's
not obvious to a package dependency system that shorewall-core-1.2.3 is
acceptable for shorewall6-1.2.5. Gentoo would typically define the
dependencies as simple variables that are constructed from the base
package name you are installing, and so letting these versions get out
of lockstep would be annoying and extra work (and likely lead to bugs)
My thought would be that generally people on Debian are quite happy
running shorewall 3.x despite shorewall-4.5 being out. Don't panic too
much about their freeze, if users of Debian want to get bang up to date
they can come upstream and get their packages... This is a distro
management problem, not your problem
Cheers
Ed W
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