[Fedora-packaging] [DRAFT] Post Release Naming/Tags
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Mar 23 21:51:11 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 14:18 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Which is not to say that upstream's twisted numbering scheme won't do
> *something* unexpected. Which is one reason I'd rather see us use the
> %{X}.%{alphatag} syntax always. The other reason is that using it
> always makes things less complicated. Instead of asking::
>
> Is this a prerelease or a postrelease?
> If postrelease, is upstream likely to use sane numbering?
> If no, use postrelease scheme
> If yes, use upstreams version until they screw up one time
> If prerelease, use prerelease scheme
>
> Our rule would be::
> Does upstreams version have an alpha tag?
> If yes, use alphatag versioning.
I'm not opposed to this. I wonder how many examples of the old model are
actually in Fedora.
~spot
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