On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:37 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:33 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > People regularly look at NEVRAs to identify whether there are
> > "broken"/"old" packages to clean up, and when you see .fc29 installed
> > on an otherwise .fc31 system, it looks like something has gone wrong.
> > If packages are intended to be built once and pushed to multiple
> > releases, it shouldn't have the DistTag suffix.
>
> OK, I misunderstood you because DistTag and %{?dist} are actually
> distinct things in RPM and you're using the wrong one here :)
>
It's called that in the Packaging Guidelines:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/DistTag/
It should probably be named differently now that there's an _actual_ DistTag.
> That's an interesting thought and we should consider what to do about
> it. Mind opening a ticket on https://pagure.io/modularity so we don't
> forget?
Done: https://pagure.io/modularity/issue/157
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