use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Mon Jun 4 20:56:50 UTC 2007


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:31:56PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Maybe some, but not necessarily all of them. Taking myself as an
> example, I own some python modules that may certainly be better without
> disttag, but I also have C/C++ stuff that, although stable and
> unfrequently updated are certainly better with a disttag.

Why is it better with a disttag, out of curiosity?




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