Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 à 21:44 +0200, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:30:42 +0200 (CEST), Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Le Mer 12 juillet 2006 12:45, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> > 
> > > %{?dist} is a variable, giving the false impression that the source
> > > package may be valid for arbitrary dist releases and that filling it in
> > > would be enough and that no other package updates are required. Even
> > > worse, the dist tag enters the file names of the built packages.
> > 
> > If you know your package will break on another release because foo package
> > was updated and changed its behaviour, you should require or BR foo with
> > the right version
> 
> Who said there exists such a dependency or BR?

If you know it will break with some other FC/FE version there is such a
dependency or BR

If you don't know it will break, restricting the package in any way is
100% useless silliness

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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