Re: 2008Q1 -> current: downgrade

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

> On Mon, 05 May 2008, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 >> PKGPATH           PKGBASE      PKGSRC-2008Q1 HEAD
 >> --------------------------------------------------
 >> devel/stgit       stgit        20080220     0.14.2
 >> devel/python-mode python-mode  4.54nb1      1.0
 >> 
 >> As far as I understand such situations should not appear.
 >> I think this is a bug.

> FreeBSD addressed this by adding an "epoch" counter, which starts off
> being undefined, but gets incremented whenever the package numbering
> goes backwards.  In the printable version of a package version, it's
> an extra number at the end, delimited by a comma.  In version number
> comparisons, it has a higher priority than the rest of the number.

> For example, instead of going from "stgit-20080220" to "stgit-0.14.2"
> one could go to "stgit-0.14.2,1", where the trailing ",1" means
> "numbering has gone backwards once".

IMHO prefixing is better, like this 1:stgit-0.14.2 or
1,stgit-0.14.2. In this case anumeration can be made compatible with
dewey scheme, i.e. `:' or `,' can be processed just like alpha/beta
etc.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.