use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:11:14PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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.

which is just the same as not having any disttags at all and led to
the pain before the disttag.

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

/me thinks you should just fast forward to F9 and try to submit a
package with your model to see what's wrong.

/me also thinks you should start testing release ids of "1.1" vs "1" to
id some more flaws in this.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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