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| author | Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com> | 2019-05-22 14:17:59 +0300 |
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| committer | Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com> | 2019-05-22 17:11:12 +0300 |
| commit | 0e9fc1d162c3a05e472a0b6b88ebb6826cf13d3b (patch) | |
| tree | cf91a4200ab4a0edce9a91782e1e3d84b07e165f /doc/manual.cli | |
| parent | 0d78325d0cc1eb8880baccb40de75ed2bfc60486 (diff) | |
Document package manifest upstream-version value
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diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli index 51a09bf..9b57bd7 100644 --- a/doc/manual.cli +++ b/doc/manual.cli @@ -567,12 +567,20 @@ names, etc. \ version: <version> +[upstream-version]: <string> \ The package version. See \l{#package-version Package Version} for the version format description. Note that the version case is preserved for display, in file names, etc. +When packaging existing projects, sometimes you may want to deviate from the +upstream versioning scheme because, for example, it may not be representable +as a \c{bpkg} package version or simply be inconvenient to work with. In this +case you would need to come up with an upstream-to-downstream version mapping +and use the \c{upstream-version} value to preserve the original version for +information. + \h2#manifest-package-project|\c{project}| |