Advanced dist tag uses.

[Laurent Rineau]

On Friday 24 November 2006 14:00, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> It is assumed that the release tag consists of just a single integer and
> that %{?dist} is appended to that.
>
> > If the previous release tag of streamtuner had been "14.1%{?dist}", would
> > it have been correct? (sorry if I failed to conjugate that sequence
> > correctly.)
>
> 14.1%{?dist} is invalid, too, because "1" is higher than "fc". And due to
> that, 14.1.fc5 would be higher than 14.fc6 and 14.fc7.
>
> Now, if you tried to avoid that by building as 14.1.fcN for all N dists,
> this would be unnecessary and error-prone inflation of release numbers.
>
> Correct would be
>
>   14%{?dist} < 15%{?dist} < 16%{?dist} < ...
>
> and so on. If there's ever reason to fix something only in release 14.fc6,
> without bumping release to 15, so that it would be "newer than" 14.fc7,
> the release tag can be increased at the very _right_:
>
>   14%{?dist}.1 < 14%{?dist}.2 < ...
>
> resulting in
>
>   14.fc6 < 14.fc6.1 < 14.fc6.2 < 14.fc7

Nice explanation. Is this too complicated to be explained in the wiki?