F21 version is now ahead of rawhide version

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 10:14:49 UTC 2014


>>> I don't think it is worth doing another build just for this, but if
>>> there is another 3.17 build in rawhide, it would be nice to use a
>>> release in the 400s so it stays ahead of the f21 version.
>>
>>
>> Why not move the %{?dist} to the front instead of having a numbers in
>> the 400s there, as sooner or later we'll get to 1000 and then it will
>> look even more ridiculous.
>
>
> That doesn't happen, because as each new upstream release is done, the
> numbers are reset. The most you get is 4xx (when there is a rawhide,
> branched and two supported releases or rawhide and three supported
> releases).

In theory it shouldn't get above the 300s, 100s for F-19, 200s for
F-20, 300s for F-21 and then usually rawhide is on the next cycle.
That might not be the case for the next week due to Linus travelling
but it's generally unusual.

Peter


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