Ticket #1905: Rework the versioning scheme.

We have a problem with the current mc-x.y.z-preW versioning scheme for
both Redhat and Debian. The problem is that

(1) mc-1:4.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64
(2) mc-1:4.7.0.pre4.231.g8cfffc5-1.fc12.x86_64

(1) is considered to be older than (2)

Signed-off-by: Slava Zanko <slavazanko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin <aborodin@vmail.ru>

configure.ac

@@ -544,10 +544,6 @@ AC_SUBST(LIBS)
 dnl Libraries used only when building the mc binary
 AC_SUBST(MCLIBS)
 
-dnl Version for the RedHat package, without dashes
-RPM_VERSION=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/-/./g'`
-AC_SUBST(RPM_VERSION)
-
 if test -n "$use_smbfs"; then
   AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([vfs/samba])
 fi

contrib/dist/redhat/mc.spec.in

@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@
         %define _with_screen --with-screen=slang
 %endif
 
-%define mc_version @RPM_VERSION@
+%define mc_version @DISTR_VERSION@
+%define mc_release @DISTR_RELEASE@
 %define mc_tarball @VERSION@
 
 Summary:        User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell
 Name:           mc
 Version:        %{mc_version}
-Release:        1%{?dist}
-Epoch:          2
+Release:        %{mc_release}%{?dist}
+Epoch:          3
 License:        GPLv2
 Group:          System Environment/Shells
 Source0:        %{name}-%{mc_tarball}.tar.gz
@@ -152,6 +153,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %dir %{_libexecdir}/mc
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 30 2009 Yury V. Zaytsev <yury@shurup.com>
+- Bumped the epoch again and changed the versioning scheme.
+- Thanks to Slava Zanko for all his hard work on m4 vodoo!
+
 * Fri Dec 25 2009 Yury V. Zaytsev <yury@shurup.com>
 - Had to bump the epoch because of the braindead versioning scheme used.
 

m4.include/mc-version.m4

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 dnl @synopsis MC_VERSION
 dnl
-dnl get current version of Midnight Commander from git tags
+dnl Get current version of Midnight Commander from git tags
 dnl
 dnl @author Slava Zanko <slavazanko@gmail.com>
-dnl @version 2009-06-02
+dnl @version 2009-12-30
 dnl @license GPL
 dnl @copyright Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -17,4 +17,22 @@ AC_DEFUN([MC_VERSION],[
         VERSION="unknown"
     fi
     AC_SUBST(VERSION)
+
+    dnl Version and Release without dashes for the distro packages
+    DISTR_VERSION=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/^\([[^\-]]*\).*/\1/'`
+    DISTR_RELEASE=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/^[[^\-]]*\-\(.*\)/\1/' | sed 's/-/./g'`
+
+    if `echo $VERSION | grep -c '\-pre'`; then
+        DISTR_RELEASE="0.$DISTR_RELEASE"
+    else
+        if test `echo $VERSION | grep -c '\-'` -eq 0; then
+            DISTR_RELEASE=1
+        else
+            DISTR_RELEASE="2.$DISTR_RELEASE"
+        fi
+    fi
+
+    AC_SUBST(DISTR_VERSION)
+    AC_SUBST(DISTR_RELEASE)
+
 ])