On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:22 +0900, Warren Togami wrote: > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/libevent/libevent.spec?root=extras&rev=1.2 > > Hi folks, > > This is just a reminder to please do not include the %{?dist} suffix in > the version field within a package %changelog like in this example > package. How do you want us to avoid it in cases, where you have to branch releases/"walk side ways" release-wise? The usual work-around would be to append a suffix to end of the release tag, e.g. xxx-3-4%{dist}.1 (cf. below). > It is misleading when the package is built in the future on > newer distributions. The release number(s) prior to the dist tag should > be sufficient within your %changelog. Sorry, but this doesn't apply. Example: Given a package with a long history: FC3: 1-1.fc3 -> 1-2.fc3 FC4: -> 1-2.fc4 FC5: -> 1-2.fc5 Now modular was introduced to FC5, causing a cascade of rebuilds: FC5: -> 1-3.fc5 -> 1-5.fc5 -> 1-6.fc5 At this point, a packaging bug was discovered, only applying to FC < 5. The maintainer chose to "fork" for FC < 5 i.e. to use 1-2%{dist}.1, because 1.3%{dist} already had been used on "HEAD" (FC5): FC3: 1-2.fc2.1 FC4: 1-2.fc4.1 How to handle this case in %changelog? Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
