A silly question about our "FC" tag

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 11/17/2009 09:08 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Henrique Junior wrote on 16.11.2009 23:57:
>> I have a question that may sound a little stupid, but that came as I
>> write a short article about some Fedora's curiosities.
>>
>> Why are our packages still using the tag "f*c*X", "f*c*Y", "f*c*W" since
>> Fedora does not use “*Core*” in his name anymore?
>>
>> I know it's an almost irrelevant question, but the article is just about
>> small curiosities and I could not think in a better place to ask.
>
> I don't care much about the "c", but we IMHO really should get rid of a
> disttag in rawhide that is related to the release cycle when a package
> got build. Only then we can avoid confusion like "why are there packages
> with .fc11 on my F12 machine/in the F12 repos" which IMHO come up way to
> often and seem to highly confuse people.
>
> I still vote for using ".1" as %dist in rawhide all the time(¹), as that
> is higher then (for example) ".fc12"(²). But that suggestion was shot
> down last time I brought it up one or two years ago.
IMO, this proposal is silly and was shot down for valid reasons.

> Has anybody any better idea?
Keep things as they are. I don't see any reason for any change.

Ralf