Axel Thimm wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:09:05PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
I've seen bugs filed on packagers for not using the disttag before. We
should not encourage disttag everywhere, only where it makes sense. If
packages don't get updated once between releases, maybe the disttag is
not useful for that package and it's usage ought to be _dis_couraged in
this situation.
That's a sane attitude and IMHO is the current state of affairs: If
the packager identifies that he shares specfiles across releases he
grabs disttags to be able to keep the specfiles the same and not have
to cache integers for managing concurrent releases.
My argument is that if packages don't get updated that often, disttag is
rather useless as the chances are low that it will get a fedora udpate
pushed. And on the off-chance it does, diverging a specfile once is not
a big deal.
I think this is _NOT_ the current state of affairs else we would not
have as many .fc6 packages as we do in F-7. Those packages should have
the disttag removed IMO.
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