On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:00 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Btw, there is also middleground that I haven't seen being
discussed:
> What if we drop the "jpp", but keep the X from Xjpp? So foo-1.0-1jpp
> becomes foo-1.0-1.1 in Fedora.
>
> This would maintain compatibility, and would give us numeric
releases.
This is actually permitted with the current guidelines.
Not only that, but it was one of the suggested methods to rid ourselves
of jpp. I do believe I had a complete working scheme using just numbers
that left Jpackage with the ability to have "rpm newer" packages than
those in Fedora.
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?