Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 1.12 release schedule
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:28:48 -0700
On 7/22/14 3:28 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
> 
> 2014-07-22 0:19 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I plan to release 1.12.0rc3 tomorrow (the 22nd) followed by 1.12.0 on
>> the 29th. If we need to hold off either release for any reason please
>> let me know.
> Great!
> I would like to have the fix for 9891 included which I plan reviewing today.
> 
>>
>> Until now release candidate tags have been preceded by a hyphen, e.g.
>> v1.10.0-rc1. As noted in change 2759 this causes a problem for RPM and
>> Debian packaging so I plan to drop the hyphen.
> Using v1.10.0rc1 creates an other problem. It is considered to be a
> lower version number than v1.10.0:
> 
> $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.10.0rc1 ge 1.10.0
> $ echo $?
> 0
> 
> In Debian packaging we use git tags like 1.10.0_rc1 and convert them
> to version 1.10.0~rc1 in scripts and in debian/changelog.

Removing the hyphen was supposed to make things easier for upstream
packagers: https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/2759/ .