==> Regarding Re: Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines; Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> adds: katzj> 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> 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. katzj> The upstream tarball can be named based on whatever upstream wants to katzj> smoke. But by versioning the package this way, there isn't an upgrade katzj> path from 5.0.0 beta to 5.0.0 final unless you a) add an epoch or b) do katzj> something silly like autofs-5.0.0_final. Yeah, thanks for pointing this out. How do you suggest this gets fixed moving forward, then? -Jeff
