On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Jos Vos wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:17:10AM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Entirely arbitrary.
A bit offtopic for this list I guess, but does anyone know why
RH/Fedora started using the dash before the EVR?
The - separator appears to have been adopted from RH/Japan,
like from Jens Petersen in automake.spec.
This change is likely the first infection point at Red Hat:
automake14/automake14.spec:* Wed Nov 14 2001 Jakub Jelinek
<jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1.4p5-3
Jakub following a pre-existing style convention like any good
programmer should.
73 de Jeff
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