Re: Removing provide statement from an existing spec file

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs math uh edu>]

>>>>> "SSF" == Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <stefan seekline net> writes:

SSF> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Separators
SSF> "When naming packages for Fedora, the maintainer must use the dash
SSF> '-' as the delimiter for name parts. The maintainer must NOT use an
SSF> underscore '_', a plus '+', or a period '.' as a delimiter" unless
SSF> indicated by the few exceptions underneath.

"delimiter for name parts".  That doesn't say a period is invalid in a
package name, because it's explicitly listed as valid at the top of the
document.  The section you quote indicates why we have "foo-devel" and
"perl-Foo-Bar" instead of "foo.devel" and "perl.Foo.Bar".

 - J<