On May 18, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I suppose this is going to result in foo-1.2-7.fc3.1, foo-1.2-9.fc4.1 >> and foo-1.2-10.fc5 (rawhide), all of them containing the fix. You >> can't just use the version tag to identify packages containing the >> fix. > If the buggy version was foo-1.2-7, then the fixed is > foo-1.2-8.fc3 > foo-1.2-8.fc4 > foo-1.2-8.fc4.89.105 All of the above had the bug and have to be fixed, and -8 won't do it for them. > The idea is that trivial changes like rebuilds don't even need to bumb > the release tag (or the buildid component). That's good. But it still doesn't cover the case of patches being added to the package, which is what got foo-1.2 bumped from -7 to -9 between FC3 and FC4. -- 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}
