On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 17:13, Markus Elfring wrote: [...] > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name > > Thanks for your link to the guidelines. > > I find that a bit of advice is missing there if it will be helpful to > integrate extra version data also in package names just before other > users would fiddle with the simultaneous installation of package variants. As the guidelines say, we try to have only the latest version of a given package in Fedora. Having a version in the package name should be used only in case of different parallel-installable major versions of the same software. > * Are there any more development challenges to consider for occasional name adjustments? Each new package name needs a review. > * How much do you care if the name selection will be finally consistent > (including the base name) across software distributions which work > with the RPM data format? It would be nice if packages were named consistently across RPM-based distributions, but what's your point? Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
