Disttags are nice, save the disttags

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:56:20AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:32:04AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 02:51:36AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > 
> > > python on different Fedoras have different ABIs and different module
> > > installation paths, so even if a python noarch module you have to
> > > rebuild python modules from FC6 (2.4) to F7 (2.5).
> > 
> > Sure, but in my recalling this happens less often than changes in the
> > C/C++ build chain, so it may be more worth not having disttag to limit
> > unneeded updates.
> 
> It's about yearly or every other Fedora release. Or twice during the
> RHEL release cycle. We do want to support upgrading from FC<N> to
> FC<N+2> starting with N=5, so it is definitely within our range.

It has advantages, but in my opinion this is clearly a case where the
balance is not completly self evident and should be left to the packager
(it should always be left to the packager, but the balance may be on one
side or the other more clearly in other cases).

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Pat