Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:49 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> In Extras? No.
> Yes. There exist packagers who (In FE devel)
> * don't use %{?dist} at all
> * some use N%{?dist} and increment N with each iteration.
These are correct...
> * some use N%{?dist}.M and increment M with each build-iteration
...and these are not. More bugs to file!
I'd argue there are valid cases for using this latter construct(*), like
fixing a packaging bug/error limited to only one fedora
release/platform. I'd agree that that it's use should be rare.
(*) especially for those packagers (like myself) that prefer to keep a
single specfile sync'd for all fedora releases.
-- Rex