xorg package names aren't starting at 7.0

[David Timms]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>Have you looked at the source tarballs for the individual components now?
>
No.

>for example  xf86-input-mouse-X11R7.0-1.0.3.1.tar.bz2
>the individual components are getting release numbers which a seperate
>from the global release.  In the case of the mouse package that
>release is 1.0.3.x
>
I can see from your eg why it makes sense for rh/fedora to use the 
package versioning that the upstream developers use, otherwise it would 
be even more confusing.

>...If FC ships some 
>components that match the versions in X11R7 and some versions which
>are updates beyond whats in X11R7. Why is it appropriate to brand all
>these things as X11R7? 
>
I guess that the upstream developers could start at 6.99 ? for the 
a/b/test/rc's and move to 7.0.0 at the time that the major release is 
made, and then they could all free float from there on ?

Thanks for the reasoning.

DaveT.