On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 08:03:00 -0700, Brad Bell wrote:
> I have the case where the master (rawhide) has the following verison and
> release
> Version: 20150000.4
> Release: 2%{?dist}
> The other branches have not had any builds with this version of the
> upstream source.
>
> It it correct to just merge the master into origin/f21 and then push as
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintenance_guide
> might be suggesting ?
>
> Perhaps I should change the release to
> Release: 1%{?dist}
> and the log from
> * Sun Feb 01 2015 Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com> - 20150000.4-2
> to
> * Sun Feb 01 2015 Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com> - 20150000.4-1
Why would you want to do that? The %dist macro is not there without
reason. It ensures that the build for an older branch is _lower_ than
the build for newer branches. If you need to touch/update only an
old branch, notice:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches
Else, the Dist Tag guidelines are these:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#The_.25.7B.3Fdist.7D_Tag
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