On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 18:07 +0000, jd...@penguincomputing.com wrote: > From the "Guidelines for Naming Fedora Packages" the example in the > "Multiple packages with the same base name" section > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name) > > seems to contradict the "Separators" section > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Separators) > > The example describes naming a package as python-sqlalchemy0.5 to show how > to make a compatibility package, but the separators section says: > > The maintainer MUST NOT use an underscore '_', a plus '+', or a period '.' > > as a delimiter. > > Is the period inside the appended version number not considered a delimiter > for these purposes?
The Separators section says explicitly: "Version numbers used in compat libraries do not need to omit the dot '.' or change it into a dash" Therefore, this is an exception and not a contradiction. -- Yaakov Selkowitz Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
