[Fedora-packaging] version in package name with a number in the name

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Jun 8 12:47:57 UTC 2010


Hello,

I would like to package a more recent version of hdf5 (in a private repo,
but the issue is clearly there for EPEL). According to the naming guideline,
with hdf5-1.8.4, the name could be along hdf518. But this is a bit annoying.
Wouldn't it be better to have an exception and allow hdf5-18?

-- 
Pat


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