[Fedora-packaging] Re: Using of date in snapshot versions

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 19 April 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:35 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Do April 19 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > If it's serious: I suspect everyone can identify that something
> > > matching 2006XXXX or 2007XXXX implies a date, and if not a capital D
> > > won't help either.
> >
> > I would prefer to use YYYY-MM-DD which is easier to read and an ISO
> > conform afaik. Would this cause any problems with rpm?
>
> If not with rpm, there's a good chance it will cause problems for
> people's local scripts because of dash's being used as separators for
> name-version-release.

rpmbuild refuses to build a package with dashes in Version or Release.