Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564520 --- Comment #12 from David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-02-17 22:34:04 EST --- (In reply to comment #10) The basic question is how to convert the version name "Beryllium 2" into something reasonable. Sorry to have such a long conversation about version/release id's, but upstream's version naming convention is hideous and it's not directly covered by the Fedora guidelines. Anyway, I looked at this for some guidance: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Package_Version Since Beryllium has atomic number 4, this is subrelease 2 of the Beryllium version, and we should prefix with "0." (see comment #5 and comment #6), then I think we should have: Version: 0.4.2 We could have a perfectly reasonable 'release' value like this, since 0.4.2 would uniquely map to Beryllium 2: Release: 1%{?dist} Having a simple 'release' value has its own virtues, and that'd be quite reasonable. However, what I was thinking was that many people might not understand that version "0.4.2" was the same thing as "Beryllium 2" (unless they look up our translation gimmick). The "Release" value is where nonnumeric version id's hide, so I was thinking that we might use the Release field to provide that info to users. E.G., perhaps something like this for Beryllium 2: Release: 1.beryllium.2%{?dist} Then the initial release number would be incremented for each new package release of Beryllium 2. Does that sound reasonable? Comments, anyone? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review