[Fedora-packaging] Re: Python Virtual Provides

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "DM" == David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> DM> Requires: pythonegg(RuleDispatch) >= 0.5a0.dev-r2303
> 
> DM> Is the dash in the RuleDispatch version likely to cause problems?
> 
> Not so much the dash as the fact that there is a huge chance that with
> such incredibly poor versioning practices we're likely to see things
> fail to sort properly in the future, leading to versions which go
> backwards rpm-wise.
> 
Well, the package will already have that problem.  This is the prettiest 
I could make cleaning up the version::

%define nonnumeric_relstring a0.dev-r2303
Name: python-ruledispatch
Version: 0.5
Release: 0.1.%{nonnumeric_relstring}
Provides: pythonegg(RuleDispatch) = %{version}%{nonnumeric_relstring}

Since the script Dave provided makes constructs the Provides line for 
us, using the script with these kinds of versions doesn't really make 
our lives harder.

-Toshio

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