Re: minor spec file updates (against 3.7beta3)

From: Rudolph T Maceyko (rm55@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 20:11:27 CEST


--On May 4, 2005 19:53:33 +0200 Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
<richard@levitte.org> wrote:

> rm55> - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm is a symlink to /etc/X11/twm on
> RedHat-ish rm55> systems
>
> Actually, I want to question this. Should ctwm use /etc/X11/ctwm and
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ctwm? That way, twm and ctwm can easily live side
> by side. That's how it's done in Debian...
>
> The same goes for the images. On Debian, they are placed in
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps...

Makes sense.

> rm55> Question: why is the beta3 part omitted from the version
> attribute?
>
> Because my standard is {major}.{minor}[-{stage}]. RPM doesn't allow
> dashes in versions. So I made a choice.

I think beta3 (etc.) should be in the RPM version attribute...
otherwise it's completely unobvious that it's a beta release. This is
just a different mapping of your "standard" (and one that doesn't
*lose* information, at that).

Rudy



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