On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:13 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > ==> Regarding Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines; "Tom 'spot' Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> adds: > > tcallawa> The following Fedora Core packages from development (rawhide-20060711) > tcallawa> are in violation of the Fedora Package Naming Guidelines. There are > tcallawa> undoubtedly other packages in violation, but these are the most > tcallawa> egregious that I could identify: > > tcallawa> Bad beta naming (should be e.g. foo-1.8.1-0.1.beta5) > tcallawa> ===================================================== > tcallawa> autofs-5.0.0_beta6-5.src.rpm > > The upstream package is named autofs-5.0.0_betaX. You can't impose Fedora > naming conventions on upstream packages. The tarball can be named goldfishrule.tar.gz for all Fedora cares. The versioning and release numbering for the RPM package is where we have standards. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Technical Team Lead || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
