On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:26 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "SSF" == Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > SSF> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Separators > SSF> "When naming packages for Fedora, the maintainer must use the dash > SSF> '-' as the delimiter for name parts. The maintainer must NOT use an > SSF> underscore '_', a plus '+', or a period '.' as a delimiter" unless > SSF> indicated by the few exceptions underneath. > > "delimiter for name parts". That doesn't say a period is invalid in a > package name, because it's explicitly listed as valid at the top of the > document. The section you quote indicates why we have "foo-devel" and > "perl-Foo-Bar" instead of "foo.devel" and "perl.Foo.Bar". Right. I was in doubt if the provide statement was/is really fine, so I wanted to clarify this. Thanks to point this out and to precise the question. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
