[Fedora-packaging] using the tilde in tarball versions

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/01/2013 12:59 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've had a look at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734802
>
> and I understand that tildes are supported by new versions of RPM, but
> not by Fedora infrastructure
>
> I'm currently trying to prepare an upstream project to build tarballs
> and I would like to use tildes in the version number of the test
> tarballs and distribute them through the upstream web site.
Can you explain why do want to do so?

To me personally, there is not any single reason for using ~ in version 
numbers, except of lack of experience of upstreams, who do not 
understand that ~ and other special characters ($€?!) cause a lot of 
confusion.

Ralf