[Fedora-packaging] PackageNamingGuidelines comments

[Matthias Saou]

Elliot Lee wrote :

> You're definitely right that there will always be some special cases, and
> we'll have to deal them on a one-by-one basis. In that particular special
> case, I'd prefer to use "1.0beta1" as the version.
> 
> However, the existence of this special case above doesn't prove that
epoch
> is bad or the wrong way to handle things. It's important to keep the
users
> in mind - their package searching and updating lives would be made a lot
> easier if the Version: is as close to upstream whenever possible.

Sure, but you've got to make the balance with what Ville just posted... ok,
I'm probably a bit biased, but just like him, I think that the current
"workaround", which is properly documented and easy to follow is definitely
worth it. Oh, that and "epochs are a nightmare"... just ask jbj, he's
probably seen some of the wildest bug reports ;-)

Matthias

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