On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:10 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:49 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> >>> In Extras? No.
> >> Yes. There exist packagers who (In FE devel)
> >> * don't use %{?dist} at all
> >> * some use N%{?dist} and increment N with each iteration.
> >
> > These are correct...
> >
> >> * some use N%{?dist}.M and increment M with each build-iteration
> >
> > ...and these are not. More bugs to file!
>
> I'd argue there are valid cases for using this latter construct(*), like
> fixing a packaging bug/error limited to only one fedora
> release/platform. I'd agree that that it's use should be rare.
I agree there are valid cases for doing this on "non-devel", but I can't
imagine any reason for doing this on "devel".
> (*) especially for those packagers (like myself) that prefer to keep a
> single specfile sync'd for all fedora releases.
Increment N, %{?dist} will do the rest.
Ralf
--
Fedora-packaging mailing list
Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
