[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Christopher Stone]

On 7/5/06, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> Ok; a more realistic example: you have an application for Fedora
> Extras which requires bind, version 9.3 or later.  What would you
> write?
>
> a) Requires: bind >= 9.3?
> b) Requires: bind >= 24:9.3?
>
> When your answer is a): this requirement would be fulfilled by FE3 with
> its bind 9.2.1 too, so this answer would be wrong.
>
> When your answer is b): what would you gain with it? Epochs are a
> per-environment thing and not bound to program versions. E.g. SuSE or
> Mandriva might have bind-1:9.4 packages. Because the Fedora Extras
> packages are for a specific environment (FE4, FE5, devel) only, you
> can be sure that the needed program versions are available there and
> the explicit version is not needed.

The answer is a.  If it doesn't work on FE3 then I would be surprised,
and it should be fixed by the legacy team for FE3.

Why would you ever use b?  I think you might be confused on the
versioning, you do realize that a version of 9:3 is different than a
version of 9.3 correct?