release number, was Re: Mass rebuild: Rebuild your packages for fc6

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Thu Sep 7 19:49:32 UTC 2006


On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Paul Wouters (paul at xelerance.com) said:
> > > If you haven't rebuilt your packages, please do so soon.
> >
> > If there have been no changes to the package, should the release version
> > be bumped for this proces? Or in other words, why is the massive rebuild
> > happening?
>
> PT_GNU_HASH support from gcc, proper tagging of dependencies for -devel
> packages. And yes, the release should be bumped (but no reason to rebuild
> for earlier releases.)

After my mind went "huh" a few times I figured out what Bill meant with
"no reason to build for earlier releases". He meant, yes build a new
release within devel, but not in FC3/4/5.

Paul




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