When using %{sailfishos_version} in a .spec file on OBS, it outputs 40500 for version 4.5.0.16. This should be formatted like 45xxx (x is don’t care)
No.
I believe this is in line with how Fedora and SuSE do it. Also changing it now would break everybody who relies on the current way.
See
- openSUSE:Build Service cross distribution howto - openSUSE Wiki
- GitHub - sailfishos-chum/main: Documentation and issue tracker for the SailfishOS:Chum community repository
The schema is something like “each dot is replaced by a zero” and the last component is omitted.
SFOS version 10.3 would be 10030x.
I agree it’s not intuitive but it allows for simple integer comparison.
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The Suse table is very confusing. But it seems to be consistent for SFOS. I’ve been using it for 3.4 vs. 4.x and < 4.2 comparisons for 2 years.
This is by design. We wanted to be able to compare numerically the versions and had to safeguard for versions like 4.10.1.16