Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

[Florian La Roche]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:09:41PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 17:01:11 Florian La Roche wrote:
> > I've suggested before to leave away the dist tag for the
> > devel branch completely and only add it for updates once a
> > release is put together.
> >
> > This would be a change where packages now start depending on the
> > dist tag to identify certain releases.
> 
> And I've shown you before where that utterly fails and completely misses the 
> usefulness of the disttag.
> 
> Either you have to fork all your specs between release and devel (which the 
> disttag is supposed to save you from doing) or you run into broken upgrade 
> paths were foo-1.3%{?dist} equates to foo-1.3.fc7 for F7 and foo-1.3  for 
> rawhide (F8) and you wind up with an broken upgrade path.

Hello Jesse,

This just means that you have to pick a version for updates, but can then
just built into FC-devel without the current discussion about dist tags
in releases. Picking working version numbers for the updates isn't that
hard, but then the whole disttag discussion is also not an overly critical
discussion to have.

regards,

Florian La Roche