On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:30 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:16:43AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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.
How does this proposal relate to the kernel package?
fwiw, the kernel is "special" in many ways, but in this case, this would
only affect a hypothetical kernel24 vs kernel.
~spot