use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 04.06.2007 18:56, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:20:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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".
> You either have F9 go ".2" (if F8 is ".1") or you would had killed the
> usefulness of disttags altogether, so either way it's broken.

No, you don't have to. It can stay at ".1" forever; if you update
something for devel and/or a release distribution just increase the
portion left of the disttag -- that's what we do in any case.

/me more and more gets the feeling people don't understand what I'm up
to; of I'm really missing something here.

CU
knurd