[Fedora-packaging] Upstream version strings with a hyphen

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 01:12:11AM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> The guidelines for prerelease packages [1] say
> "... tags like alpha, beta, rc, or letters like a and b denoting that
> it is a version before the "final" number. Unfortunately, we cannot
> simply put these letters into the version tag, so we'll use the
> Release field for this. "
> 
> So in your situation, you probably need to do
> 
> Version: 0.27
> Release: 0.1.beta.20100710
> 

Ahh yes, that works perfectly for my use case.

Thanks,
Siddhesh