A silly question about our "FC" tag

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:52:42PM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > It's a hack. It's Fedora-specific, so doesn't belong in RPM (or
> > anything else). And RPM will no longer produce predictable versioning.
> >
> 
> My proposed hack's outcome is quite predictable.
> 
I just faced this same attitude in upstrea, python community and lost.  But
they aren't all Unix users so I can forgive them.  When people are using
"predictable" they aren't just refering to being able to look up the rules
surrounding sorting of versions in Fedora 13 and above's version of rpm; we
are really saying that sorting should obey the rules of rpm in all
distributions.  And to some extent, to sorting done by dpkg and other unix
package managers and Unix tools like /usr/bin/sort or even ls with LANG=C

-Toshio
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