RPM 4.10 released [LWN.net]

RPM 4.10 released

Posted May 25, 2012 11:09 UTC (Fri) by misc (subscriber, #73730)
In reply to: RPM 4.10 released by jengelh
Parent article: RPM 4.10 released

It seems to me rather logical to ask distribution how to best integrate with them since that's their job. That's the whole point of doing a rpm in the first place, for the integration. And asking can be simply "looking at the documented practice of the project who you plan to integrate with".

And what nimnim say about numbering release is about the release tag of rpm, ie the practice of using 0.beta1.1 for a beta1 rpm, instead of using 1.

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RPM 4.10 released

Posted May 27, 2012 3:14 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Yes. It seems logical to tell authors to use useful numbering schemes rather then work around it.

Any person who sees Foo, version 1.3 and then Foo, version 1.3.2 would think that 'ah-hah' they must if released a bug fix version or something! Since, you know, 2 is a higher number then nothing which in human idioms is usually simultaneous with zero..

To me this seems very similar to trying to work around kernel bugs in userspace. Although in this case the bug is introduced into the metadata by upstream rather then program logic.