On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:59 -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote: > The '0.' prefix for pre-releases is very important, as it is intended to > lose for the final '1'. > > And the pre-release tags? We have been obeying strictly what the > upstream software produced is using. This means that if they say it is > 'rc2' then JPP has 0.rc2.... but if they say it is 'M4', it becomes > 0.M4.... Strictly what the developers called it and the software web > site refers to it as (normally it is also in the sorce tar ball name). Note that the above scheme is broken in the sense that it lacks .<int> between the leading 0 and $prereleasestuff, possibly resulting in the need to bump the leading 0 before the final version is out. More info: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-e104844825856d7c45f2f0241586985c0495966b Example: 0.YYYYMMDD > 0.beta5 may be undesirable, but with the additional .<int>, the packager is always in control and can do eg. 0.1.YYYYMMDD < 0.2.beta5
