ANNOUNCE: Unstable release 4.26-4 released (fwd)

[Robin M.]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2004 5:00 pm, Robin M. wrote:
>
> > please if you see fit change the naming scheme to the standard.
>
> Whose/which standard?

This is how most software is packaged. Also the rpm documentation suggests
this standard.
Look on rpmfind.net and you will see that every piece of software uses the
version scheme
softwareversion = "majorrelease.minorrelease.revision"

i.e.
proftpd-1.2.5-1.1mlx.i386.rpm
softwarename-softwareversion-rpmbuildnumber.arch.rpm

With the current scheme proper upgrades via rpm cannot be acheived as rpm
does not recognize that the number beyond the dash is an incrementally
more recent version.