make force-tag gone

[Paul Howarth]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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 :-(

Unless of course you bump the release after the disttag, e.g. 
%{?dist}.1, in which case you won't break the upgrade path and 
everything will be hunky-dory.

Paul.