use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Jun 4 20:55:27 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:31:56PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> 
> My argument is that if packages don't get updated that often, disttag is 
> rather useless as the chances are low that it will get a fedora udpate 
> pushed.  And on the off-chance it does, diverging a specfile once is not 
> a big deal.
> 
> I think this is _NOT_ the current state of affairs else we would not 
> have as many .fc6 packages as we do in F-7.  Those packages should have 
> the disttag removed IMO.

Maybe some, but not necessarily all of them. Taking myself as an
example, I own some python modules that may certainly be better without
disttag, but I also have C/C++ stuff that, although stable and
unfrequently updated are certainly better with a disttag.

--
Pat




More information about the Fedora-maintainers mailing list