Re: Packages without a dist tag

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On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 03:48 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > 
> > here's the meeting logs where disttag was made mandatory:
> > 
> > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-12
> > -04/fpc.2014-12-04-17.02.log.html
> > 
> > Looks like most of those packages could have it added but there are 
> > a
> > few exceptions (the fedora-release-* packages were noted in that
> > meeting).
> > 
> > -Toshio
> 
> Thanks for the link. I'm not sure I understood the reason for having 
> an exception for fedora-{release,repos}*. The log says:
> 
> 17:41:58 <tibbs|w> There's no reason for them to do so, since their 
> version is tied to the distro version.
> 
> Which is true, but why is that a reason to grant them an exception? 
> Would it cause any problems it they contained a distro tag as well?
> 

Yes, because this is the package that provides the definition of the
distro tag. It couldn't install itself.
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