On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:16 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > We didn't have quorum in the Fedora Packaging Meeting but we did discuss > the proposal[1]_ to relax the guidelines for packages with multiple > versions. After some discussion it was decided that restricting the > maintainer too much is not desirable. ACK. > I'd like to have votes on relaxing the guidelines as follows: > > ''' > 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. Though consider this proposal to be a step into the correct direction, I don't think it goes far enough. It still recommends "one version package w/ no version". IMO, this recommendation is more confusing than helpful and should also be removed. [Consider "gtk->gtk2"-like cases: in long term, one can expect gtk to die out and gtk2 to remain. The recommendation could be interpreted as recommendation to rename gtk2, then.] => +1, but ... proposal: Let's also remove the "no version recommendation". Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
