Idiotic (was: rpm: alpha vs numeric)

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:55 am, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Mike also discussed it in the public IRC channel, along with other
> rhatters, including JBJ briefly.  I don't recall _any_ of them in favor of
> using text anywhere other than disttag, where disttag would _not_ be used
> in the package comparison.

> IRC is public.  Sorry you weren't there.

Serious development conversations should not happen in IRC unless the chat is 
fully logged and posted.  IMHO.  A global development community must needs be 
asynchronous.  Synchronous communications channels have no place in a global 
community.  IMHO, and IME as part of the PGDG.  Public or not; key developers 
may not be up|online|in the mood to develop at the instant of the chat.

> Bottom line, I'm getting really sick of the bickering. 

Amen.

Fedora Legacy packages should simply follow the Red Hat precedent.  No more; 
no less.  The third party repositories can do whatever they want for their 
extra/alternative packages, but that discussion does not belong here.  There 
IS a precedent for errata packages, if the people arguing this would just 
care to find it.
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