Re: Format of %changelog line

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Jos Vos wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:17:10AM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> > Entirely arbitrary.
>
> A bit offtopic for this list I guess, but does anyone know why
> RH/Fedora started using the dash before the EVR?

The - separator appears to have been adopted from RH/Japan,
like from Jens Petersen in automake.spec.

This change is likely the first infection point at Red Hat:

automake14/automake14.spec:* Wed Nov 14 2001 Jakub Jelinek  
<jakub redhat com> - 1.4p5-3

Jakub following a pre-existing style convention like any good  
programmer should.

73 de Jeff