Kind request: Set release version to "10" (was: Retain upgrade paths)

[Sean Middleditch]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:56, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Florian La Roche wrote:
> > Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > I'd like to kindly request to set to release version to "10" or
> > > something higher than "9.0.94".
> >
> > The decision about the version number is already done.
> 
> If by that, you mean that the decision is to stick with 0.94 without much 
> discussion (that I've seen or heard) and despite it's obvious 
> shortcomings... that's a shame.  Heading down this path will also lead to 
> lots of, IMO, uncessessary Epoch inflation.  One example:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105746
> I'm sure if nothing is done, many more will follow.
> 
> I don't know about you Axel, but until I see a better alternative, I'll 
> personally be inflating Fedora X.Y to rh(X+10)Y in the release tag of 
> packages I maintain.  The only other alternative is to simply increment 
> Epoch for everything, which is yucky, yucky.

Could someone please explain why the distro version matters in any way
shape or form for any packages save the two or three things like
'fedora-release' ?  If you're package is depending on the distro
version, and not the actual components in the distro, your package is
probably broken.  Make your package depend on the actual components it
uses, not the distro those components *might* be coming from.

> 
> -- Rex
> 
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