package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[juanmabc]

Adam Williamson wrote:
>I'm not sure that 'fixing' it provides any significant benefit other than
>looking tidy in pontificating emails. I mean, what's the actual problem caused
>by 'gnome-desktop' vs. 'gnome-desktop3'?

I think its clear, and also seems clear there is not much willing to 
code/improve anything if it can be avoided.

Both are the same package, only changes major version, if from the start 
multiversion would have been integrated, nobody would have think about it 
another way.

>That's a very trivial difference; it barely exists. The hyphen isn't
> some kind of magical character for RPM, so the difference between 'pkg2'
> and 'pkg-2' is entirely aesthetic.

I guess this goes as aesthetic as writing in CAPS in emails, having 
grammatical errors in writing, wrong spoken pronunciation, etc. just points 
it's not correct and hence should be fixed. "I write this wrong but the 
difference is aesthetic" is well, wrong. Correctness, smartness matters. Plus i 
feel the user experience at installing stuff would improve.

By the way the main package is still pkg not pkg-1 or pkg-2, though some 
method of listing pkg would raise pkg-1 and pkg-2, so you can install. So, I'm 
not sure you got the point of the hyphens there.

Again: pkg2-2.0.0.rpm, no sense.