On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:55:06PM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Yes, I am exaggerating here, but does it make sense to have package > python3-3.3? Why we don't have python3-1.0? Where is the version 1.0 > of python 3? Why we duplicating the version? Non of these question > makes you think that we are doing something wrong? Actually we are > again at the beginning, since this is how the thread started. Why was Java 1.4 succeeded by Java 5? Why was ICU 4.8.1 succeeded by ICU 49.1? Why does systemd have version 197 instead of 1.9.7 or somesuch? Version is just an arbitrary string of numbers assigned by upstream. There is no inherent meaning in it. The only requirement on it is that it be monotonically increasing, in whatever way the upstream chooses. If it pleases them to use hexadecimal numbers, or to append additional numbers to the end to approach some well-known irrational number (e.g., pi or e), so be it. Therefore, any argument that is based on "where is the version 1.0 of package foo?" is just meaningless. D. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
