[SM-Discuss] policy for the VERSION of init.d

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Tue Jun 10 13:55:58 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:39:14AM +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> 
> It happened in the past that I worked on the init.d spell and it
> happened again recently (though I didn't push). I faintly remember a
> bit of discussion when I incremented the version number in DETAILS of
> the spell last time... also I see that hardly anyone besides me seems
> to think that VERSION in there is something that can actually change.
> 
> So I want to have this cleared up once: What is the meaning of the
> VERSION of init.d?
> There is no upstream tarball or such, the spell _is_ the software. Thus
> I reckon that the version number should increment with any spell
> change... well at least with any change to the files that get installed.
> People seem to disagree? Or not care?
> 
> So, any opinions (or already existing policy docs that I boldy did not
> read) on the VERSION and PATCHLEVEL handling in init.d and similar
> spells?
> 
> 
> Alrighty then,
> 
> Thomas.
> 
> PS: What is the meaning of the triplett 2.2.2 anyway? What is a
> major/minor change?

I've wondered about that myself :)
How about we just drop PATCHLEVEL and convert VERSION to a single
number? Makes it easy and understandable and doesn't change anything
functionally.
If no one objects, the next one to touch init.d should just pick a
number and put that into VERSION.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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