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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