ambiguity in the guidelines

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Jul 6 05:41:28 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 21:59 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:

> Is this based on any actual problems for tools ? Is yum having trouble
> b/c of people sticking version numbers into the changelogname ? Or is
> the main concern the added amount of typing such a guideline would cause
> and/or the overloading of this field ?

no, yum doesn't care about it - the problem is the same issue as always
- it is a mistake to count on string parsing to separate out this
string. If we want it in the changelog data then put it in there but not
in that field.


-sv





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