Re: Rebuilds needed for Fedora 8

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:28:19PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>
> > For example, foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.1.fc8 compares "fc7" with "1",
> > whereas foo-1.0-1.fc7 -> foo-1.0-1.fc8.1 compares "fc7" with "fc8" as
> > intended.
>
> Ok, but "1" is bigger than "fc", or not?

Sure, which is why this holds true:

> > While this hasn't in practice caused problems in devel

Anyway, it is not how %{dist} is intended to be used.

> We are bumping releases only in devel, so this situation shouldn't
> happen.

Maybe, but it can happen.  Can you point out any problems that would arise 
from always just appending the .1 to the release tag?