"version_rc1" preceding "version" without increasing the epoch?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 1, 2013, at 08:11, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I'm wondering if there is some painless & acceptable way to upgrade
> the port to rc1 (or beta or whatever else) when knowing in advance
> that the next release will only drop the "rc1" part? Without
> increasing the epoch?

This kind of problem is the reason why the epoch variable exists. Why don't you want to use it?


> Is it acceptable to simply set the version to "version", change
> "distfiles" and "worksrcdir" manually to add "_rc1" and then revert
> everything back and increase the revision when the true release comes
> out?

I don't favor that, because it gives the user the impression that a port is at "version" when it is in fact at "version_rc1". We shouldn't mislead users.