Pending packages status

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:44:37PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:18:28PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> I have a suggestion:
>>>
>>> foo-1.0-0.1
>>> foo-1.0-0.2
>>> foo-1.0-0.3
>>> foo-1.0-0.4    << ok, it's ready
>>> foo-1.0-1      << maintainer rebuilds the package with release=1,
>>>                  and sends a 'Please upload' email
>>
>> That's fine with me, but I don't think either upset or setup will grok
>> the .n usage.
>
>IIRC, setup works exclusively by curr/prev/test and doesn't parse versions
>at all.

Huh?  I haven't looked at the code recently but unless there has been a
change, setup does understand version numbers.  At the very least, it
reads them from files on disk when there is no setup.ini file.

cgf