use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 03:06:45 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:34:52PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:15:04 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:43:46PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > > > > > which is just the same as not having any disttags at all and led to
> > > > > > > the pain before the disttag.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > It's painless. Package is only updated when somebody maintains it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We hope all packages are maintained. :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just introduce a package into FC6 and F7. And then have a security
> > > > > update. You start juggling around with reserving build tags like
> > > > > 
> > > > > foo-1.2.3-1 (fc6)
> > > > > foo-1.2.3-2 (f7)
> > > > > 
> > > > > fix:
> > > > > 
> > > > > foo-1.2.3-3 (fc6)
> > > > > foo-1.2.3-4 (f7)
> > > > 
> > > > or:
> > > > 
> > > >   foo-1.2.3-1.1 (fc6)
> > > >   foo-1.2.3-2.1 (f7)
> > > > 
> > > >   foo-1.2.3-1.3 (fc6)
> > > >   foo-1.2.3-2.2 (f7)
> > > > 
> > > >   foo-1.2.3-1.4 (fc6)
> > > >   foo-1.2.3-2.2 (f7)
> > > > 
> > > > It has worked fine for many package maintainers for many years.
> > > 
> > > Don't talk about yourself in plural and in the 3rd person. ;)

See bottom.
 
> > Keep moving closer to a "plonk" for this list. ;)
> 
> Yes, Your Higness. I shall keep His remark firmly noted. ;)
> 
> > > The above makes no real sense whatsoever,
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Because the minor integers seem to be assigned quite randomly and even
> the last nevr is the same as the previous on in the second group. So
> you have at least a typo and the number still make no sense.

It does.

> > > you have effectively reverted the order of buildids and disttags.
> > 
> > Elaborate.
> 
> You use "-1.", "-2.", "-3." as disttags.

The scheme above does not even know what a dist tag is. It is
a pure package release based scheme.

> But not I should elaborate on
> your choice of manual integer fiddling, you should!

In your view, a spec is exactly the same for all dist releases.
In this scheme, it need not be the same.

> Come on give us a break. Or a plonk.

"us"?

-- 
This message reminded me of a certain thread of fab-list from March
this year.