[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.84 - sort and semantic versioning

[Simon Kelley]

On 31/01/2021 19:27, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 31.01.21 um 12:21 schrieb Geert Stappers:
>> Lonnie Abelbeck's hint on another release was indeed very humble
>> and very polite. And yes, he is right with expressing
>>   We do ourself and the rest of mankind a favour by avoiding
>>   version string "2.84rc2" for verion "2.84"
> 
> Oh dear. It's not the first time that these two letters + digit were
> left in the version, it has happened before, and it is a sign of
> trusting 2.84, is it not? 2.84rc2 was tested and released unchanged.
> 
> Given the announcement and tagging and situation, what good is another
> release just to correct the version number? Can't we just politely ask
> packages to erase the "rc2"?
> (My FreeBSD package does exactly that to avoid questions, and I'd
> cheated a bit by shipping 2.84rc2 without the housekeeping as 2.83_1
> already because it was just regression fixes.)
> 
> Of course you can found a science in its own around the version number,
> but I'd propose that Simon's public statement that 2.84 = 2.84rc2 and an
> announcement on the list should just do fine.
> 
> 

Matthias,

One doubt I had on this is that the -k option to sort smells of a GNU
extension. Is it OK on *BSD?

Simon.