[pkg-go] golang-yaml.v2_0.0~git20160301.0.a83829b-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org
Wed Apr 6 00:06:32 UTC 2016


On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 09:52:57AM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Change as simple as 's{~}{+}' should fix it. :)

"fix". I'm aware of how to make dak accept it and make it sort above it
using the dpkg version compare. Thanks for that tip, Dmitry.

> > I wonder what happens when they release version 0.0, now.
> 
> If ever. ;)

But you see, that's not my point. Really, in reality, *semantically*,
we're shipping a release *less than* 0.0. To say we're shipping something
semantically *newer* 0.0 is wrong. ~ means before, like an RC. + means
after, like fixing a broken already uploaded non-free release to main
with +dfsg.


Anyway, I realize you don't like this because it doesn't git tag right,
but I'm going to keep saying + is less correct than ~. You'll likely
have to live with this fact of life.

I hope you can empathize with my love of expressing things semantically,
and I hope you can also understand this wasn't me going around claiming
anyone is a bad developer for doing this.


I *am* saying it's semantically wrong, and I'll continue to complain about
this by bitching to the list once in a while.


  Paul
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