Package naming dilemma

[Reini Urban]

Dave Korn schrieb:
>   I want to ITP remake (the make debugger) and I can't figure out how to name
> it.
> 
>   The upstream source is called remake-3.80+dbg-0.61.tar.gz.  If I plug this
> into g-b-s unaltered, it decides the parts of the package name are:
> 
> DKAdmin@ubik /usr/build/package/remake> ./remake-3.80+dbg-0.61-1.sh
> PKG remake-3.80+dbg VER 0.61 REL 1 
> BASEPKG remake-3.80+dbg-0.61 
> SHORTPKG remake-3.80+dbg-0.61 
> FULLPKG remake-3.80+dbg-0.61-1
> 
>   The problem with this approach is that if I wanted to patch it up to
> make-3.81 at some point, it would look like a different package, instead of a
> newer version of the same one.  It's an unusual situation; effectively
> upstream are referring to it as a combination of two packages, each with a
> full release number.  I could bodge all the release numbers together like
> this:
> 
> DKAdmin@ubik /usr/build/package/remake> ./remake+dbg-3.80.0.61-1.sh
> PKG remake+dbg VER 3.80.0.61 REL 1 
> BASEPKG remake+dbg-3.80.0.61 
> SHORTPKG remake+dbg-3.80.0.61 
> FULLPKG remake+dbg-3.80.0.61-1
> 
> - is it OK to have a VER with four parts?  Anyone got a better idea?

I already have this package my private setup.ini as makedb for some 
years. I also ITP'd it Nov 2004 because I found it useful from time to time.

makedb-3.80+dbg_0.2

Add http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/ to your mirror path and 
search for makedb in Devel
remake is really a stupid name.

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Reini Urban
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