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Excerpts from Thomas Bechtold's message of 2016-02-26 13:34:03 +0100:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 06:52:03AM -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Excerpts from Neil Jerram's message of 2016-02-26 11:27:05 +0000:
> > > On 26/02/16 11:16, Neil Jerram wrote:
> [snipped]
> > > v = version.VersionInfo('networking-calico').semantic_version()
> > > print v.release_string()
> > > print v.brief_string()
> > > print v.debian_string()
> > > print v.rpm_string()
> > 
> > Those do work. I found that there's also an rpm_version command
> > available like this:
> > 
> >   python setup.py rpm_version
> 
> The output for i.e. for Manila is here "1.9999.9999.b3.dev138"
> 
> Which is not really correct. The version is "2.0.0.0b3.dev138" .
> rpm supports the tilde ("~") for pre versions. Converting a PEP440
> compatible version to a rpm version can be done with code like:
> 
> https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-set_version/blob/master/set_version#L231
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Interesting. I don't know how we ended up with the implementation we
have, or why it produces that output. Maybe no one is using it?

Doug