On Tuesday 2013-09-10 15:39, Adam Spiers wrote:
Exactly. Even for a project that strictly follows semver, it still might have a series of tags like this:
v0.1.0 v0.1.1 v0.1.2 v0.2.0 v0.2.1 v0.2.2 rel-1.0.0 rel-1.0.1
semver does not cover *version-unrelated* prefixes/postfixes. If the developer of the particular software whose tags you have presented really had a change of heart and went from "v*" to "rel-*" for whatever reason, you, as the packager, should have been smart enough to recognize this and _NOT_ transplant the v*/rel-* into the RPM Version: field, just like it is done for the Linux kernel (has tag like "v3.11" but our RPM packages have 3.11 naturally). In fact, blindly transplanting whatever `git describe` tells you into Version: is almost -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org