My first (ab)use of the CVS tags

[Jeremy Katz]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> I manually tagged the FC-3 branch where the patch was now included as
> *-1_1_fc3 (where it previously was *-1_fc3) without actually changing the
> release nor anything else in the spec file, and asked plague to rebuild
> that new branch.

Inventive :-)

> So... basically, I was just curious to know what the other maintainers
> thought of this, if it was something that should be banned, or if it could
> be acceptable in such circumstances. I personally don't really know, which
> is why I'm asking.

It's probably something that we should check in the buildsystem and 
explicitly disallow.  At the same time, I think we also probably want to 
  move to where we detect the things that cause a need for this earlier 
and be proactive about pointing out the problem.

Jeremy