[Fedora-packaging] Confused by non-numeric version in release guideline

[Ralf Corsepius]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:00:47AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:53:58AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> In my personal descending order of preference I would do one of these:
>>> Version: 0
>>> Release: 1.rNNN
>> Thanks ..
>>
>> For the moment I've used:
>>
>>   Version: 0.1
>>   Release: 0.1.r11
>>
>> Ignore the Version number for now - I can change that to just be '0'
>> later if necessary.
> 
> Looks good to me. If version is set to 0, this is the safest choice 
> with regard to avoiding epochs in case upstream changes something 
> afterwards. This is also the numbering that is the most different from 
> upstream, but as long as you are aware of that...
Rubbish.

People will expect:
Requires: xxxx > r11

not
Requires: xxxx > 0.1.r11

Ralf