[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 22 April 2006 at 23:16, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:21:52PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ..which is the correct meaning!!!!

It's not. Do not mistake packaging revisions for versions. I know the
current system isn't prefect but at least it's consistent and doesn't break
upgrades. Now please drop the subject, I know what I'm doing.

Regards,
R.

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