[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 30, 2014, at 11:06 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>Installers and PyPI would then regard "3.1.4-1" as belonging to
>release "3.1.4", but being a more current build as a distribution
>file carrying "3.1.4" in its file name.

Please don't literally use "3.1.4-1".  That will cause all kinds of havoc with
the Debian ecosystem.  There we use a dash to separate upstream version
numbers from Debian version numbers.  Thus 3.1.4-1 means the first Debian
upload of upstream's 3.1.4.  3.1.4-2 is the second, etc.

Cheers,
-Barry
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