On May 13, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> => An apt or yum based upgrade from FC1->FC2 will fail to pickup this >> FC2 package without Axel having any possibility to do anything about it. > Axel could package perl-XML-Writer for FC2 for instance, or the person > inside Red Hat should have picked a higher release number than already > available. Which _is happening_, indeed! But a Fedora Core packager can't possibly monitor every single RPM repository in existence. Sure s/he can monitor the major ones, but that doesn't cover, for example, private repos that aren't available outside. The packaging guidelines are useful for such private repos as well, such that private packages. And if it's good for private repos in the sense of getting a clear upgrade path, it's good for public repos in the this sense as well. Using 0.<buildnumber> for Extras-like packages is a very simple way to ensure that, if the package ever makes it to the Core, there will be a clear upgrade path. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
