[Fedora-packaging] Re: Post-release tags

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:39:39AM -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote: The reason for moving part of the version into the release (because in 1.0rc5, "rc5" *is* part of the upstream version) is to cope with rpm's ordering w/o having to resort to Bad Unnamed Things. But usually post-release tags are less complicated, they usually follow a scheme like 1.2.3p1,2,3,4,... or 1.2.3a,b,c,... etc, which are properly ordered wrt to both the "patchlevel 0" release and the next upcoming release. In these simple cases (which make most of the post-release taggings) I'd say use the full version as is. Less confusing to users and fits nicely. If your project goes up and down with the post-releases (rpm-wise) like 1.0 -> 1.0patch1 -> 1.0a2 then you need to split off part of the version again and shoot the upstream authors. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net