make force-tag gone

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jeffrey Ollie <jeff <at> ocjtech.us> writes:
> > Refusing to bump a release number and re-tag because you don't want to
> > "look stupid" is not a technical argument.
> 
> Maybe, but it's a practical argument.
> 
> > And before you ask, yes I've used force-tag before even though I know
> > I shouldn't.  Removing it will help me be a better package manager.
> 
> No, it will make you a worse packager, as your Release tags will get 
> incremented for no reason.

It is far far worse than this. If you made a mistake doing an update
for Fedora 8, and have to bump the Release tag, its quite possible
F8 will end up with newer N-E-V-R, than your F9 & rawhide builds
breaking the upgrade path. So, now you have to re-build F9 and rawhide
with pointless Release tag bumps too :-(

Daniel
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