F21 version is now ahead of rawhide version

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Oct 7 10:49:25 UTC 2014


Peter Robinson wrote on 07.10.2014 12:14:
>>>> 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.

Hmmm, understood, seem I had forgotten those details. I simply dislike
the numbers in the hundreds and find them a bit confusing(¹), that why I
jumped in :D But I can life with them, no big deal :D

CU
knurd

(¹) any yes, moving the disttag to the front might look a bit odd, too


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