[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 192912] Review Request: paps

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:29 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 17 juin 2006 à 22:06 +0200, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:59 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > > Why and when would they supply a package, which is in Core or Extras
> > > already, with an incompatible version than what either is in Core and
> > > Extras or will be in Core or Extras later
> > E.g. because 
> > * legal restrictions prohibits Core or Extras to ship them
> > * developers use repos to ship upstream snapshots for testing.
> 
> The snapshot you're not happy about was/is shipped in devel, during at
> most one week, and is perfectly dogfoodable

Well, have a look into kde's versions in Core: 
3.5.3-0.2.fc5

# rpmver 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 3.5.2-0.2.1.fc5
3.5.3-0.2.fc5 is newer

# rpmver 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 3.5.2-0.2.fc5.1
3.5.3-0.2.fc5 is newer

Now tell me how to recompile a package from the same sources, but with
small local modifications (e.g. for testing a patch addressing a bug).

3.5.3-0.3.fc5 would do, but that's not a solution to the problem,
because it's the V-R being reserved for the next official update.

Ralf