A while ago we had a long discussion about the naming of jpackage packages within Fedora. Currently the naming convention that is used by Fedora for jpackage packages does not mesh with the Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/JavaPackageNaming
There are a number of proposals on that page, but the one I'd like to focus on is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/JavaPackageNaming#Proposal_1
This changes how we number the Fedora spins of the jpackage packages, but doesn't introduce any extra chars into the version/release.
Please, jpackage folks who are now on this list, review the page and the proposal and comment / suggest / flame / whatever. Please note that part of the core/extras merge, every package will be reviewed, and currently the jpackage packages (of which there are many, and some 90~ new ones pending for maven2) will not pass the review. Resolution on this matter is urgent.
Thanks!
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Jesse Keating