On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:30 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:16:43AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > For many reasons, it is sometimes advantageous to keep multiple versions > > of a package in Fedora to be installed simultaneously. When doing so, > > the package name should reflect this fact. One package should use the > > base name with no versions and all other addons should note their > > version in the name. > > ''' > > > > This gives the maintainer the leeway to choose whether the package is > > best served by having the latest version carry the unadorned name > > forward or the previous version. > > How does this proposal relate to the kernel package? fwiw, the kernel is "special" in many ways, but in this case, this would only affect a hypothetical kernel24 vs kernel. ~spot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
