Package EVR problems in Fedora 2008-07-26

[Kevin Kofler]

Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:16 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > 
> > Similarly, but more subtly, comparing dist-f8-updates-testing with 
> > dist-f9-updates as the script now does also makes no sense.
> 
> Actually yes it does.  There are often times when an update is only
> issued on an older branch and not issued on a newer branch, therefor it
> is necessary to compare all of the older branch against the newer
> branch.  This will lead to some false positives and can be ignored, but
> it can also detect real situations that require fixing.

But won't comparing dist-f8-updates-testing with dist-f9-updates-testing and 
dist-f8-updates with dist-f9-updates already catch those cases, without causing 
false positives?

        Kevin Kofler