On May 14, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:51:56AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Frankly, I don't see the point of disttags for the core packages. >> [...] when are they useful for packages in the Core? > o for first it will certainly not hurt at all. > o it will enable the cousing fedoralegacy to have clean backbuilds. > o it will enable Red Hat to have decent common errata for multiple > non-EOLed releases. > o it will enable rawhide to have good upgrade paths for unchanged > packages, e.g. bump the disttag from fc1.90 to fc1.91 to rebuild all > packages for test2. > o it will provide a coherent specification for Red Hat and third party > repos to use. Asking of repos to change/apply vereioning specs w/o > Red Hat to follow is not going to work. > o there will be no more big threads about disttags w/o a resolution :) You seem to have good points. I'm convinced. Unfortunately, I have no say on what happens to Fedora Core packages, other than what I talk developers into doing by filing bug reports in bugzilla :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
