[Fedora-packaging] Statistics on usage of disttags in Fedora Core and Extras

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Apr 9 16:38:30 UTC 2007


On Monday 09 April 2007 12:12:18 Christopher Stone wrote:
> Why would you have to download a new package?  You arent bumping the
> release tag or changing the spec file at all.   All you are doing is
> firing off a build of the current package in a new branch.
> Maintainers have to cvs up -d when new branches take place anyway, so
> I don't see the issue here.

Yet, the disttag WOULD get bumped and everybody would have to download this 
package as an update just to get the new dist tag.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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