Rebuilds needed for Fedora 8

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 20:12 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:28:19PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> >
> > > For example, foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.1.fc8 compares "fc7" with "1",
> > > whereas foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.fc8.1 compares "fc7" with "fc8" as
> > > intended.
> >
> > Ok, but "1" is bigger than "fc", or not?
> 
> Sure, which is why this holds true:
> 
> > > While this hasn't in practice caused problems in devel
> 
> Anyway, it is not how %{dist} is intended to be used.
> 
> > We are bumping releases only in devel, so this situation shouldn't
> > happen.
> 
> Maybe, but it can happen.  Can you point out any problems that would arise 
> from always just appending the .1 to the release tag?
The release tags in %changelog entries won't match the actual %release tags.

x%{?dist}.1 and x.1%{?dist} are ambiguous.

The same applies to the current practice: The guidelines mandate using
"x" instead of x%{?dist}.

IMO, the current convention of using x in %changelog entries instead of
x%{?dist} is a mistake.

Ralf