Re: audio/fasttracker2 - Question on version number

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:59:47PM +0530, Santhosh Raju wrote:
> I have a question about re-doing the version numbering scheme used in
> audio/fasttracker2.
> 
> I was going through repology.org[1] entry for fasttracker2[2], almost
> all of the package systems there uses a 0.1.bNNN while pkgsrc uses
> 2.NNN. NOTE: They might drop the "b" if it comes out of beta.
> 
> Since the version number was changed[3] to make it easy for parsing by
> tools, I was wondering if the scheme used in repology.org is friendly
> enough for parsing by tools, if so then would it make sense to have
> current version scheme to be changed to fit the one seen in
> repology.org?
> 
> I also wonder if the change would be disruptive? if so we can leave
> the scheme in pkgsrc as it is.

You can change the version number so it's closer to what other systems
use, no problem. Even better would be if upstream chose a better
version number themselves ;)

pkgsrc supports the string "beta" in version numbers, so perhaps
0.1betaNNN is best.

Cheers,
 Thomas