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Description of problem: Squirrelmail package in Fedora Core 3 Test 2 has incorrect version number. It is, squirrelmail-1.4.3-2.noarch.rpm whereas it should be something like, squirrelmail-1.4.3a-2.noarch.rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): squirrelmail-1.4.3-2.noarch.rpm Additional info: SquirrelMail 1.4.3 and SquirrelMail 1.4.3a were different releases and the package has been patched to bring it up to the latter. The version number of the RPM should reflect this.
The same applies to the SquirrelMail RPM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.94.
Under RPM packaging best practices, %{version} should avoid non-numeric symbols whenever possible. I will add "a" to the end of the %{release} tag for only cosmetic purposes for FC3/RHEL4, as that is how we attach non-numeric version parts to our package versioning. Version: 1.4.3 Release: 3.a
Thanks Warren. Though actually, the reason I omitted the "a" was because 1.4.3a had not been formally released at the time I built the packages -- the rpm contains the 1.4.3 tarball and a patch to fix whatever 1.4.3a fixed.