Package names in FC5

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:47:50 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:

> > No pattern. Core package developers can do what they want, and some of
> > them still don't seem to care that .fc3 is "newer than" .FC5 in RPM
> > version comparison.
> 
> That's a bit of an exaggeration.  It's not that we don't care, it's that
> it doesn't matter unless you're doing something *else* really dumb at
> the same time as *switching* between those two nomenclatures.
> 
> *yawn*.

No need to yawn. :) It has happened before that a package from Core was
moved to Extras or vice versa, and then you get the "switching" in updates
unless the different packagers agree on a common way.