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Summary: Review Request: automaton - a Java finite state automata/regular expression library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=394871
------- Additional Comments From loganjerry@gmail.com 2008-05-01 15:22 EST ------- Thanks for the suggestion, David. Anders is attempting to use precisely the RPM versioning scheme; i.e., version-release. This works great so long as he is the only one releasing packages. However, it doesn't work so well should I, as Fedora maintainer, need to make a new release to fix a packaging problem or to put in a temporary security fix.
Why don't I use exactly his versioning scheme, and append .1, .2, etc. in the event that I need to make a release that is not tied to an upstream release? That is, the initial package would be automaton-1.10-3, exactly like he has it. If I need to make a new release before Anders does, then I'll make it automaton-1.10-3.1, and so on. Does that seem like a better idea, given that Anders likes his scheme?
This discussion also affects mona, bug #436033, by the way.