use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Mon Jun 4 20:31:56 UTC 2007
Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:09:05PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> I've seen bugs filed on packagers for not using the disttag before. We
>> should not encourage disttag everywhere, only where it makes sense. If
>> packages don't get updated once between releases, maybe the disttag is
>> not useful for that package and it's usage ought to be _dis_couraged in
>> this situation.
>
> That's a sane attitude and IMHO is the current state of affairs: If
> the packager identifies that he shares specfiles across releases he
> grabs disttags to be able to keep the specfiles the same and not have
> to cache integers for managing concurrent releases.
My argument is that if packages don't get updated that often, disttag is
rather useless as the chances are low that it will get a fedora udpate
pushed. And on the off-chance it does, diverging a specfile once is not
a big deal.
I think this is _NOT_ the current state of affairs else we would not
have as many .fc6 packages as we do in F-7. Those packages should have
the disttag removed IMO.
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