Plan for tomorrows (20070418) FESCO meeting

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 07:25 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 19.04.2007 07:14, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 07:10 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> On 18.04.2007 23:05, Brian Pepple wrote:
> >>  >
> >>> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- MISC -- Vote on rebuilding packages with old
> >>> disttag - jwb 
> >>>
> >> Something related to this (mentioned on FAB-list 24 hours ago, but 
> >> didn't get any replies) to fix the problem in F8 and later:
> >>
> >> Why don't we just expand the disttag to something else without the
> >> "fc<I>n</I>" in it in the devel branch? Then we don't have run into the 
> >> "package disttag doesn't match the release it is shipped in" problem 
> >> when a package is not rebuild during a devel cycle. A simple ".1" maybe 
> >> -- that should make everybody happy afaics:
> > 
> > How would a mixture of .1 and .fc6 in the released fc7 make everybody
> > happier than a mixture of .1 and .fc7 ?

Sorry, I meant .1/.fc6 vs .fc6/.fc7.


> OIOW: I'd say we simply change to what the distttag expands right after 
> F7 was branched, and then look at the repos by F8-test1 or test2 and 
> decide then what to do.
> 

I don't see any real problem solved here, only cosmetics.