Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904843
--- Comment #15 from Al Stone <ahs3(a)redhat.com> ---
(In reply to comment #14)
Oh, discussing Debian packaging practices is beyond the scope of a
Fedora
package review request. ;)
Agreed :-).
[...]
> Version: 5.0
You may consider the ACPI specification version relevant, but it is not
being used for the versioning scheme of the acpica-unix archive. Where's the
benefit?
My thinking was it would aid the user. However, given that the ACPI
spec has never been in the versioning _before_, I can concede on that
point. It doesn't really add that much.
acixf.h
#define ACPI_CA_VERSION 0x20130117
changes.txt
17 January 2013. Summary of changes for version 20130117:
https://www.acpica.org/downloads/linux.php
The current release of ACPICA is version 20130117.
The tarball: acpica-unix-20130117.tar.gz
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=acpica
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpica-unix/+bug/1060791
Hrm. Fair enough. It would make it more difficult to find things
across distros; I had not considered that part of it.
The Obsoletes/Provides pair now would be self-obsoleting
Provides: iasl = %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes: iasl < 20120913-7
and would advertise a changed versioning scheme for iasl, too.
> Release: 20130117.1%{?dist}
So, I see you've returned to the official tarball release.
Yup. Examining the changes in git vs the official tarball in more detail,
they were not sufficient to justify going to a snapshot type of package.
They were useful patches, but "nice to have" not "essential to working
properly." The benefit was far outweighed by the effort for the snapshot
scheme.
Yes, I did, with the thought that it might be more useful (I seek to
continuously improve things whenever I can...). In this case, though, the
counter-arguments so far have had more weight -- and more practicality that
I had not seen before. I've learned a great deal :).
So let's just use the original straightforward scheme. I can work with
that. That would be:
Version: 20130117
Release: 1%{?dist}
which should handle the Obsoletes/Provides, as well.
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