Review swap

Lorenzo Dalrio lorenzo.dalrio at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 20:13:29 UTC 2014


In my hurry I have swapped Version and Release following exactly the
guidelines you have linked. :-/
Thank you Michael for pointing it out, sorry for the inconvenience...


2014-11-19 19:46 GMT+01:00 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:47:30 +0100, Lorenzo Dalrio wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have this trivial package ready to be reviewed
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165584
>>
>> I'd be happy to review one in exchange.
>
> We may need to redefine "trivial" for this one. ;-)
> Look:
>
>  | Version:        20141118git%{shortcommit}
>  | Release:        1%{?dist}
>
> You would be better off if you followed Fedora's versioning guidelines
> for snapshots,
>
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Version_and_Release
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Release_Tag
>
> where you include the date of the checkout in the "Release" tag instead
> of the "Version" tag. If there hasn't been an official _version_ yet,
> choose "Version: 0". This gives you much more flexibility when dealing
> with future updates (not limited to upgrades/downgrades).


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