Naming packages when upstream uses dashes in the release version

Petr Pisar ppisar at redhat.com
Wed May 6 07:21:53 UTC 2015


On 2015-05-05, Alexander Ploumistos <alex.ploumistos at gmail.com> wrote:
> What irks me the most, is that the version of the source package is
> 3.80-1 and this is reflected in the spec file macros (Version: 3.80,
> Release 1),

It depends on the meaning of the upstream's `-1'. Basically, I would
interpret it as yet another version level, i.e. as `3.80.1'. If the upstream
tends to release `3.80.1-1', I'd interpret `3.80-1' as `3.80.0.1'.

-- Petr




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