use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Jun 4 16:20:12 UTC 2007


On 04.06.2007 18:10, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:27:18AM -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.
> And it's just replacing .fc8, .fc9 with .1, .2, not really
> helpful. Not to mention that it breaks all dotted releases.

No. As I wrote (and you quoted it; see above): "so there would no
need to got for "x.2".

Cu
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