RFC: Font versioning

[johnf]

@vonovak @brentvatne @oblador

I'm input on how we should version the font packages.

One of my goals was that the version of the font packages should match upstream.

The issue is sometimes we need to update a font package when there is no upstream change, e.g. #1682

My current thought was to do something like this

Upstream	Action	Our Version
1.0.0	Font update	1.0.0
1.0.0	Code change	1.0.1-really-1.0.0-v1
1.0.0	Code change	1.0.1-really-1.0.0-v2
1.0.1	Font and code update	1.0.1

I did some testing a while back, and while this approach should work, it is still reasonably ugly.

I thought about a four digit semver, but my research indicates it will break tools.

My latest thought is that if the font version is 6.7.2, our version starts at 1006.1007.1002, and we can bump the first digit.

Does anyone have a better idea or preference on the above?

[johnf]

The other alternative is we don't try to follow upstream at all and have a table in the README of which RNVI font versions map to which upstream versions

[vonovak]

hello @johnf - I'd go with the readme table. It's simple, effective, easy to maintain.