Re: Package Naming Guidlines

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Toshio wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:32, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Things could break with strange enough upstream alphabetic release tags:
> Betas of 1.0 taking the form 1.0[a-z] will break on upgrade from 1.0s =>
> final (foo-1.0-1.s.rh9 => foobar-1.0-1.rh9)  Don't knwo if that's enough
> of a reason, though.

These kind of cases are already addressed in the naming proposals 
(unless recent ones have changed).  Non numeric items in the Version tag 
should be avoided, and are generally moved into the Release: tag.

-- Rex