Michal Ambroz wrote, On 03/21/2010 07:32 PM: > Dear fellows. > I would like to ask you for guidance what should be the best way to resolve the > collision in versioning scheme introduced in the upstream nikto package. > > I am trying to submit package update to the fedora > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575605 > So you are not the Fedora nikto packager? It is the packagers job to update the package. He might appreciate your help, but you should contact him and not file a review request. This looks like an unfortunate and probably unintended attempt at hijacking the package. > Versioning scheme for nikto was sofar: 2.01, 2.02, 2.03 > The new nikto release version is 2.1.1 . > Version 2.1.1 is numerically lower than 2.03, which is currently present in the distribution. > > Please could you give me some hints what is the best approach how to > deal with this verison scheme change? > > Rename the package to something like nikto2 with new versioning scheme? > Is there some other way? > (As Bruno said: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines#Use_of_Epochs .) It seems like a wise decision upstream to change their versioning scheme, but perhaps they should be suggested to bump it to something less ambiguous - for example 2.3.1. /Mads -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
