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

[Ralf Corsepius]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> 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
>> What issue are you trying to solve by this choice?
>>
>> You are not solving anything.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean.

Let me turn my question around: Why can't you directly use the upstream 
version?

Ralf