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

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Jan 14 10:57:25 UTC 2009


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...

--
Pat




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