Re: audio/fasttracker2 - Question on version number

[Santhosh Raju <santhosh.raju%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:27 PM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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 ;)
>

The problem with upstream[1] is the author is not interested in
maintaining a Linux / BSD package and therefore would be hard to
convince to change version number scheme.

There is an explicit request at the bottom of the page[1] not to
bother the author Linux / BSD on changes.

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

This makes sense.

leot@ told me that the version number might decrease after such a
change, say for a given version 132, if the NetBSD version changed
from 2.132 to 0.1beta132 then (2.132 > 0.1beta132). And this would be
an issue with version numbering since the new one is smaller than the
old one. Any suggestions on how to handle this?

Reference

1. https://16-bits.org/ft2.php

Regards
Santhosh