Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 17:01:11 Florian La Roche wrote:
> I've suggested before to leave away the dist tag for the
> devel branch completely and only add it for updates once a
> release is put together.
>
> This would be a change where packages now start depending on the
> dist tag to identify certain releases.

And I've shown you before where that utterly fails and completely misses the 
usefulness of the disttag.

Either you have to fork all your specs between release and devel (which the 
disttag is supposed to save you from doing) or you run into broken upgrade 
paths were foo-1.3%{?dist} equates to foo-1.3.fc7 for F7 and foo-1.3  for 
rawhide (F8) and you wind up with an broken upgrade path.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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