Breaking deps deliberately

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu May 14 22:14:05 UTC 2009


On 05/15/2009 01:14 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/15/2009 03:30 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>     
>>> On 05/15/2009 03:04 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Btw, the F-10 update would have had a higher %release than the F-11
>>>>> update (1.0.21-4.fc10 > 1.0.21-3.fc11).
>>>>>           
>>>> Sigh, why do people keep doing this instead of using proper 3.fc10.1
>>>> versioning?
>>>>         
>>> Is that method documented anywhere?
>>>
>>>       
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches
>>
>> ... although I find it a bit weird to have this rule in the Naming Guidelines.
>>     
>
> I wasn't expecting it to be under naming guidelines either.
>
> Would referring to it from
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO help?
>   
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo 
should mention it.
BTW, 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingCvsFaq#How_do_I_make_changes_to_an_older_branch.3F 
mentions this trick, too.





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