use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting)

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 14:15 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 13:45:07 Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > I thought about this, but it wouldn't ensure proper ordering between
> > packages. Packager A rebuilds after Package B is done, but changes to
> > Package A affect Package B's build.
> 
> How would a mass rebuild be any different?  A mass rebuild is likely to go 
> through in either ls ordering or python hash ordering....

That needn't be the case. Packages could be built in a "from the ground
up" order beginning with what's by default in the buildroots (i.e. what
doesn't need to be build-required). This gets only ambiguous with cyclic
build-dependencies in which case we'd have to fall back to something
else (ls ordering, python hash ordering or even "bug the release
engineers and let them decide" ;-)).

Nils
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