[Fedora-packaging] Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2013-10-07 16:00 - 17:35 UTC) (unofficial pre-meeting started at 15:20 UTC)

Mon Nov 11 07:45:33 UTC 2013

On 07/11/13 19:39, James Antill wrote:
> * dots in version portion  (abadger1999, 16:52:28)
>    * Agreed that the version portion of scl names must include dots.
>      (+1:5, 0:1, -1:0)  (abadger1999, 17:00:35)
I'm sure I mentioned dots will surely will be a problem for rpm, yum, 
dnf, createrepo or something else in this area.

That's probably the reason for guidelines about Compat packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines?rd=Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name

Marcela