Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Jul 12 15:02:37 UTC 2006


Le Mer 12 juillet 2006 16:58, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 08:18, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> You can probably have devel = fcn.50, test 1 fcn.90, release = fcn+1 if
>> you really want it
>
> But what does this actually solve?

It solves the "package name says it's for fc6, but it's not really for fc6
but some older rawhide/test state"

> You want to remove dist tags for the devel
> branch, only to reintroduce them in a way that isn't consistant with the
> other dist tags?  I don't get it....

People don't want to remove dist from devel, what they want is to avoid
people pulling an old "fc6" package from some badly synced mirror after
fc6 is released only to discover it's not really for the released fc6

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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