Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
First, as these packages are maintained upstream (not only the software,
but the spec files and other SRPM bits) it is important to know in which
EVR they are based on. So, if you know that ......6jpp has a fix for
some problem then if the one you have installed is .....6jpp<some fedora
suffix) also has it. That is what Nicholas was talking about.
IMHO, this tracking belongs in the upstream versioning, NOT the
packaging Release field. This is how every single other OSS package
handles it. That's how I know if httpd has a feature in 2.2.1 that isn't
in 2.2.0, or if a bug fix is in 2.2.2.
You are not considering the two levels of usptream.
The upstream here is the RPM, not the sotware.
The Java RPM packages are created and maintained by a community
upstream, just imported into Fedora (and Suse and RHEL, and Mandriva
and....)
As they are RPMs, they already have a Release field which indicates the
packaging version. The version field is indeed from the upstream**2 as
you say it should.
Regards,
Fernando
