[apparmor] AppArmor release versions

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 04:22:46PM -0700, John Johansen wrote:
> The use of ~beta1, ... in our release versions has proven to be problematic from
> both a packaging and repository mirroring pov.  To address this it has been
> proposed we move to a new format relying solely on numbers.
> 
> The proposal is the next development release moves to a
> 
>   2.7.0.99.xx  format
> 
> and when the release comes the major versioning numbers will be bumped. ie.
>   2.8.0 or even 3.0.0
> 
> The specifics of how betas for point releases will be handled has not been
> worked out yet.
>   2.7.1.xxx will not work for 2.7.1 bump a 2.7.0.50.xxx or something would.
> 
> 
> So far no changes have been made, so any feedback on the proposal is welcome.

I'm fine with this method. This makes Debian/Ubuntu packaging very straight
forward.

I think 99.X is fine for all alpha, beta, and rc releases. Since
they're always linear, 99.1 is whatever we say it is, 99.2 is next,
etc.  Alternatively we could declare a mapping from the "99" part to
alpha/beta/rc?

    .90 == alpha
    .95 == beta
    .99 == rc

?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team