Kind request: Set release version to "10" (was: Retain upgrade paths)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 19:09:35 UTC 2003
Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said:
> If you read the original post, Axel's concern to upgradability from the
> previous fedora release naming standard. A concern of mine is that I
> maintain packages for all redhat releases going back to rh73, and I do it
> all from a single src.rpm, and dynamically generate a Release tag based
> upon the contents of /etc/redhat-release. Like Axel, I also would like to
> maintain upgradability from previous releases. I argue that having to
> increment Epoch solely for the purpose overcoming the Release drop (9 ->
> 0.9 ) to maintain upgrade paths is yucky.
Well, it would have to change anyway, from rh73 to fXXX, so, you'll
still need a change of some sort.
Seriously, changing the release version notes the change in
the release itself; its goals, its features, its methodology.
Bill
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