From: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 60725@debbugs.gnu.org, GNU Debbugs <control@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#60725: guix lint thinks 2019111-0.7e76d75 is older than 20191111
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:34:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz7lkum8.fsf@fsfe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87358hjifv.fsf@gmail.com>
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> retitle 60725 support the special '~' character in our version parser
> thanks
>
> Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> writes:
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Guix,
>>>
>>> If you run 'guix lint emacs-enh-ruby-mode', it'll print this:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> emacs-enh-ruby-mode@2019111-0.7e76d75: can be upgraded to 20191111
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> In this particular case, 2019111 seems to have been a typo in the first
>> place. (It misses out on a '1' in our package record).
>
> Thanks! With this typo fixed, 'guix lint' doesn't suggest a downgrade
> anymore.
>
>> AFAIK, any sane versioning scheme would assert that 20191111 > 2019111-anything.
>
> That's not currently the case with Guix. Guix package version strings
> are documented has having the requirement to be 'monotonically
> increasing', so '43.rc3' as used by GNOME is seen by Guix as newer than
> '43', the final release.
I agree with your assesment, but note that my example (again) had one
"1" less, in which case Guix does the right thing :-).
>
> I'll keep this bug open (and retitle it), because implementing ~ would
> be useful (GNOME makes use of that scheme, and it's understood by rpm,
> dpkg, pkg-config, etc.).
Fixing our versioning code so "123" > "123-alpha2" will also bring us
(more) in line with Semantic Versioning.
- Jelle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-11 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 3:23 bug#60725: guix lint thinks 2019111-0.7e76d75 is older than 20191111 Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-11 13:24 ` Jelle Licht
2023-01-11 13:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-11 14:34 ` Jelle Licht [this message]
2023-01-11 18:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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