Inconsistent package tags

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Tue Jun 26 15:04:11 UTC 2007


Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> I'm sure I'm missing something that prevents 'f8' being the
> dist-tag, I'm no release engineer after all. These are just things
> that come to my mind.

Perhaps the strongest reasons not to change or worry the dist tag are:

a) it has non-zero costs (in that it causes upgrade path issues, etc)
b) it provides nothing but some very mild cosmetic value (to some)
c) it has been discussed here previously and decided that the fc means
   fedora collection
d) there are far more pressing issues to work on

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