Use bash patchlevel as part of RPM version?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 09:02 +0200, Roman Rakus wrote:
> Hi,
> There is a bug (#496780) requesting to use patchlevel of bash as part of 
> RPM version. So today bash-4.0-6.fc11.i586 would be 
> bash-4.0.16-6.fc11.i586. What do you think about it? Could it break 
> anything?
> RR

General rule of thumb is follow what's in the tarball filename if
possible. And the patchlevel isn't in it.

But putting the patchlevel in somewhere isn't a bad idea. I'd go with
something like this:

bash-4.0-1.pl16
bash-4.0-2.pl17
bash-4.0-3.pl18

... That is, follow the guidelines for a non-numeric post release:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Package_Version

(Even though it's technically numeric...)
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