Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jul 12 11:56:35 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 02:53, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
>>Actually all the java packages need some sort of alphatag-like
>>convention to indicate what JPackage package they're derived from. I
>>agree the current convention of the Java team is rather ugly, but the
>>reasons it's there are real reasons.
> 
> 
> You've told us they need it, but haven't told us _why_ they need it.  I don't 
> buy this.

The "why" is that the they'd like to indicate in the Release tag the 
"Release" of the JPackage.org equivalent that it was derived from.

-- Rex




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