[Fedora-packaging] Java packaging guidelines draft

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Mar 27 22:02:22 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:00 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > Btw, there is also middleground that I haven't seen being discussed:
> > What if we drop the "jpp", but keep the X from Xjpp? So foo-1.0-1jpp
> > becomes foo-1.0-1.1 in Fedora.
> > 
> > This would maintain compatibility, and would give us numeric
> releases.
> 
> This is actually permitted with the current guidelines.

Not only that, but it was one of the suggested methods to rid ourselves
of jpp.  I do believe I had a complete working scheme using just numbers
that left Jpackage with the ability to have "rpm newer" packages than
those in Fedora.
-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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