On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> At least, put .1 before %{?dist}.
This is not desirable, because doing so will result in the value of %{dist}
between distributions not compared with each other, but rather the
random "1", thus sidestepping the whole purpose of %{dist}.
For example, foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.1.fc8 compares "fc7" with "1", whereas
foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.fc8.1 compares "fc7" with "fc8" as intended.
While this hasn't in practice caused problems in devel, putting the .1
after %{?dist} does not have this (or any other as far as I know) potential
issue. On the other hand, putting it before %{dist} in a non-devel branch
does cause upgrade path problems or needs for rebuilds for the sole purpose
of EVR bumps, eg.
Bad: foo-1.0-1.fc7 < foo-1.0-1.1.fc8 > foo-1.0-1.fc9
Good: foo-1.0-1.fc7 < foo-1.0-1.fc8.1 < foo-1.0-1.fc9
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-378ec5e6a73d5425d55c115ff5d0fa5f5094dcba
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