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On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 10:54 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> Either use 4.7.99+4.8-rc4 like most other recipes do or at least
> "4.8~rc4"
> which might sort lower than "4.8" (but needs to be verified for all
> packaging backends first).
> 
> Ignoring all this completely results with what we can see in oe-core
> now:
> 
> ERROR: linux-libc-headers-4.8-r0 do_packagedata: QA Issue: Package
> version for package linux-libc-headers-dbg went backwards which would
> break package feeds from (0:4.8-rc4-r0.0 to 0:4.8-r0.0)
> [version-going-backwards]

Sorry, we did screw up there :(. Lots of moving pieces and its hard to
catch/remember everything.

I wish we knew for certain whether ~ works properly everywhere. A good
case for some unittests I guess...

Cheers,

Richard