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

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>     
>>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 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?
>   

Prepending 0.0 before the SVN version would avoid the need for an epoch
should upstream decide later on to release numbered versions, even one
as low as 0.1. (Though it cannot cover all possible ways upstream might
use to number releases.)

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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