Re: rawhide report: 20090619 changes

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:53 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/6/19 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>
>         
>                 mono-tools-2.4.2-1.fc12
>                 -----------------------
>                 * Tue Jun 09 2009 Paul F. Johnson
>                 <paul all-the-johnsons co uk> - 2.4.2-1
>                 - Bump to 2.4.2 preview 1
>                 - Add support for ppc and ppc64
>                 
>                 - Add label for udev-acl
>                 
>                 
>         
>         is there any reason why mono doesn't use the 0.x revision tags
>         for alpha/beta/RC releases like everyone else?
> 
> Plenty of projects fall outside that naming scheme, it's unfortunate
> but that is life. Maybe upstream will consider your thoughts on the
> matter if you bring them to their attention.

He's not talking about upstream, he's talking about the Fedora package
release tag. There is a policy for the handling of pre-releases in the
release tag:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packages


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