[Galene] Re: 0.4 tag & locked/unlocked state available?

["Michael Ströder" <michael@stroeder.com>]

On 7/16/21 4:15 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> Please do not tag as 0.3.99.0 because with semantic versioning this
>> would be a release newer than 0.3.0 and not a 0.4.0 pre-release.
> 
> Do you have any better suggestions?

See the suggested ordering matching rules in semantic versioning:

https://semver.org/#spec-item-11

The question is whether a tag is really needed by client devs.

When packaging Galène from latest git revision I usually use a package
base version like this:

0.4.0~<timestamp>

With 0.4.0 being the next planned revision.

Package version would then be something like:

0.4.0~<timestamp>-1.1

Some downstream packagers sometimes use git revisions instead of a
timestamp. Personally I prefer monotonically increasing timestamps.

AFAIK the tilde is commonly used by downstream packagers for suffixing
pre-releases because 0.4.0-1 would considered be a later release
following 0.4.0~<whatever> by package managers.

Ciao, Michael.