On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:43 AM Maxwell G via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon Jan 2, 2023 at 09:57 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Dne 02. 01. 23 v 9:38 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski napsal(a): > > > produces bogus changelog messages and artificially > > > inflates Release counters. > > > > I always wondered why people are afraid of gaps in numbering? It is > > just a number. The number will not object if you skip some of them. :) > > The release number shows how many builds of the same version have been > made. A high release is also baseline indicator that a package/project > is stale downstream and/or upstream. When the first build of foo v1.5.0 > is foo-1.5.0-6 because the author took the time to split up logical > changes into separate commits, the value of that release number is lost. The heuristics you are describing are assumptions, not facts. They are decent assumptions in the context of the Fedora project, but they don't necessarily actually apply equally across the package set. Personally, I think we should avoid tying any assumption to the Release value and simply realize that it is the mechanism used to present an update to a system. Guessing what foo-1.5.0-6 vs. foo-1.5.0-560 means based on what we think Release denotes is kind of dangerous. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
