[Fedora-packaging] Nikto - Versioning change

[Mads Kiilerich]

Michal Ambroz wrote, On 03/21/2010 07:32 PM:
> Dear fellows.
> I would like to ask you for guidance what should be the best way to resolve the
> collision in versioning scheme introduced in the upstream nikto package.
>
> I am trying to submit package update to the fedora
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575605
>    

So you are not the Fedora nikto packager? It is the packagers job to 
update the package. He might appreciate your help, but you should 
contact him and not file a review request. This looks like an 
unfortunate and probably unintended attempt at hijacking the package.

> Versioning scheme for nikto was sofar: 2.01, 2.02, 2.03
> The new nikto release version is 2.1.1 .
> Version 2.1.1 is numerically lower than 2.03, which is currently present in the distribution.
>
> Please could you give me some hints what is the best approach how to
> deal with this verison scheme change?
>
> Rename the package to something like nikto2 with new versioning scheme?
> Is there some other way?
>    

(As Bruno said: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines#Use_of_Epochs .)

It seems like a wise decision upstream to change their versioning 
scheme, but perhaps they should be suggested to bump it to something 
less ambiguous - for example 2.3.1.

/Mads