There is at least one (likely more) scripts in use for doing mass rebuilds that are incorrectly bumping the release value. I noticed this before and brought it up in IRC but didn't file a bug then. What's going on is that the script is incrementing the release by 1 but is not rounding off the value. So, for example, from one package I maintain (perl-qpid_proton) I see the following in the %changelog: * Sun Aug 04 2013 Fedora Release Engineering * <rel-eng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 0.4-3.1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Jul 22 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> - 0.4-2.1 - Perl 5.18 rebuild * Mon Apr 1 2013 Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce@xxxxxxxxxx> - 0.4-1.1 - Changed the qpid-proton dependency to qpid-proton-c. - Changed the qpid-proton-devel dependency to qpid-proton-c-devel. * Fri Mar 1 2013 Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce@xxxxxxxxxx> - 0.4-1 - Rebased on Proton 0.4. The scripts doing these mass rebuilds ought to be doing something lik: release = floor(current_release + 1) rather than just bumping by 1. -- Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx> http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
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