[Fedora-packaging] Version name for prerelease when upstream used date based versions

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jul 10 04:59:52 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 23:41:43 +0300,
  Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
> On 07/09/2009 11:34 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I am looking a the suggested version name for a prerelease when upstream
>> uses dates for their versions.
>>   
> Doesn't  
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packages 
> , "example (pre-release svn checkout)" help ?

If you know what the name of the version will be when it's released. However
I don't know what the next release date, and hence version name, will be.
So I can't do the prelease the way it is suggested there.




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