A silly question about our "FC" tag

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 17:11 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>> Actually not if done in conjunction with a release bump, such as we do
>> with a mass rebuild.
>>
>>
>
> Only if we make a promise to never use the same base n-v-r across the
> releases until whichever release we did the mass rebuild on is retired.
>
> You are correct in that if we did a mass rebuild in dist-f13, we could
> move to .f##, but consider 3 days later a maintainer wants to push a new
> upstream release across the branches:
>
> foo-1.2-1.fc11
> foo-1.2-1.fc12
> foo-1.2-1.f13
>
> We're back in the same boat where the "fc" packages will be n-v-r
> higher.
>

Is RPM so hard to hack to work this around?

Orcan