On 03/01/2023 09:30, Petr Pisar wrote:
Different number of commits will mean different release numbers. That
will
break package interdependencies which requires a specific release number. E.g
foo requires bar.
Good point. Hard-coded release numbers are a serious problem even in Fedora.
We have a serious issue with mesa vs. mesa-freeworld synchronization,
because Fedora's mesa package has a strict EVR dependency requirement.
RPM Fusion maintainers can't even bump Release, otherwise the package
can't be installed due to conflict[1].
[1]:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6426
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)