spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Wed Mar 5 20:43:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 21:33 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Wed March 5 2008, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:19 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 
> > > Also, since this seems to happen on build operations, it means that
> > > packages get a dist tag, even if the packager doesn't want one.
> >
> > Do we want packagers to have a choice?
> 
> Afaik, the dist tag is not used on packages that are very large and contain 
> primary data, e.g. game data, that works in several releases and should not 
> be updated when the release is updated.

Ah, I see.  Ok, I'll add an option to override in the next patch.





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