[Fedora-packaging] Re: Guidelines and epochs

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Jan 8 17:48:37 UTC 2007


Le lundi 08 janvier 2007 à 12:08 -0500, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 05:37:10PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Sorry, I meant 1.1 vs 1.09.
> > Then the best practice would be to write 1.1 1.10 (I hope this is
> > documented somewhere). Tought of course it would be better if upstream
> 
> I'm not sure that's best practice at all -- version numbers should match
> upstream version numbers as closely as possible.

In the perl case versions are numbers so 1.1 = 1.10
Though some perl authors rejoice in skipping the last 0 to make Red Hat
users suffer (speaking from painful experience)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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