Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines
Tom 'spot' Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 14:15:57 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:55 -0500, Jima wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > I highly encourage that you use integers in the Release field, and not
> > whole numbers (e.g. use 3, not 3.206), because that is the best way to
> > confuse rpm (rpm thinks 3.206 is newer than 3.21). We're not going to
> > run out of integers anytime soon.
>
> Err, I think you kinda contradicted yourself there; I think you're
> telling people TO use whole numbers, and not decimals. Unless my brain is
> warping the definition of "whole numbers," which is also possible
> (although a cursory Google suggests not).
Yes. Whole numbers, not decimals. I'm allowed to get math wrong, it
comes with my North Carolina School of Science & Math diploma.
~spot
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