Re: Old/compat package naming

2009-11-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > There's no reason in there that the older package must have the versioning > and the newer package is bare. No, but the version almost everyone is going to use should be the default, not the suffixed version. Usually, that's the newer version. Kevin Kofler -- f

Re: Old/compat package naming

2009-11-23 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:34:40PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > Hi, > > Alexander pointed out that I was suggesting a wrong name for Saxon 9 > package [1]. In fact there's a couple of packages in repositories now > that violate the naming policy [2] in the very same way. Apart from > wondering w

Re: Old/compat package naming

2009-11-21 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi Lubomir, On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 17:20 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > Hi, > > Alexander pointed out that I was suggesting a wrong name for Saxon 9 > package [1]. In fact there's a couple of packages in repositories now > that violate the naming policy [2] in the very same way. Apart from > wonde

Re: Old/compat package naming

2009-11-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: > Given the history of these, this sounds like way more work to change > than it's worth. (They'd certainly have to still provide 'glib2' > and 'gtk2' for many years in the future.) Well, given how few things still use gtk+ 1, it shouldn't be that hard to do now, as only th

Re: Old/compat package naming

2009-11-20 Thread Karsten Hopp
Am 20.11.2009 17:34, schrieb Lubomir Rintel: Hi, automake1.11-2.fc11 automake17 1.7.9-12 What's wrong with this ? automake-1.11 is the new, current version, automake1{4,5,6,7} are the older ones. Karsten -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https:/

Re: Old/compat package naming

2009-11-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lubomir Rintel (lkund...@v3.sk) said: > glib1:1.2.10-32.fc11 > glib2 2.20.5-1.fc11 > > gtk+1:1.2.10-68.fc11 > gtk22.16.6-2.fc11 Given the history of these, this sounds like way more work to change than it's worth. (They'd certainly ha

Old/compat package naming

2009-11-20 Thread Lubomir Rintel
Hi, Alexander pointed out that I was suggesting a wrong name for Saxon 9 package [1]. In fact there's a couple of packages in repositories now that violate the naming policy [2] in the very same way. Apart from wondering what does Devrim think about renaming the existing saxon package, I'm wonderi