On 06/15/2015 12:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I did a bit of experimental packaging of Unison over the weekend, and > -- proving the importance of creating a mock-up -- I came to realize > why my proposal was wrong: > > - Subpackages would have the wrong version number. eg: If the main > package was unison-2.48.3-1.fc23, the Unison 2.40 branch subpackage > would have been called unison240-2.48.3-1.fc23 (containing only > version 2.40.x).
You can set arbitrary version numbers on subpackages, so this isn't really an issue. > So I guess we're stuck with the old branches in separate packages as > now. Another option would be to press upstream to support Unison across trust boundaries, which would imply fixing the serialization protocol first (it is currently horribly unsafe). -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
