Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 13:27:21 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:28:16PM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> Invalid use of underscore
> ==========================
[snip]
> java_cup-0.10-0.k.1jpp_9fc.src.rpm
[snip]
> nss_db-2.2-35.src.rpm
> nss_ldap-250-5.src.rpm

Dude, what?  These three are listed in PackageNamingGuidelines as
examples of packages which naturally contain underscores in their
upstream names.  I suspect that java_cup made the list because it's
using an underscore in the release field, but huh?

Nalin




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