Versioning

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hi,

Could one of the Red Hat developers please draw John Dennis' attention to
this thread? I don't think he frequents this list.

Matthias wrote:

> > dovecot-0.99.10.6-1,FC3,1
> > -------------------------
> > * Wed Jun 30 2004 John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
> > 
> > - bump rev for build
> > - change rev for FC3 build
> 
> I saw this too in my FC2 (testing) updates... commas in the release? Is
> this really meant to be so? Not to mention the "FC3"...

It got as 0.99.10.6-1,FC2,1 in testing. Can this *please* be reverted?
We had a similar discussion on the version of cup lately
(http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00290.html).
I do appreciate a somewhat standardized way to version packages. That works
much easier with scripts etc.

Are there guidelines on versioning written down somewhere? Wouldn't it
be a good idea to formulate and write them down if they do not yet
exist? What are the procedures at Red Hat for priming new developers?
Any obligatory reading they have to do?

Leonard.

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