use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Jun 4 15:45:06 UTC 2007


On 04.06.2007 17:30, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 11:27 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Monday 04 June 2007 11:20:47 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> The idea to use ".1" as disstag for devel (discusses weeks ago) still
>>> stands.
>>> The idea in short: x.1 is higher then x.fc7 and avoid the confusion if a
>>> package doesn't get rebuild during a devel cycle; and if there later is
>>> a update after releases x simply gets increased -- so there would no
>>> need to got for "x.2".
>>> I can outline the idea further if anybody is interested.
>> I'm really really against playing games with dist tags like this.  Just for 
>> the record.

/me would prefer to have a more detailed answer...

But well, not that important. I don't care that much about that idea,
but I think it could nicely solve the problems at hand.

> I thought this had been thoroughly shot down already ?

No, it was agreed on to let FESCo revisit that after F7 is out.

CU
thl




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