Question regarding dist-git aesthetics with branches

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 23:22 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > Using names like f13, el5, and so forth would also keep dist-git 
> > > consistent with git branch naming conventions.  If we were to do 
> > > something like that we might as well just use the value of %{dist}.
> 
> But that's just too obviously right for us to be allowed to do it!
> 
> > That was going to be my next question, although that would bring back
> > the "c" in fc13 and fc14 since that's what the dist value is.  We could
> > bite the bullet and change the dist value to remove the c, and just
> > manually keep track of making sure that builds on older releases won't
> > be "newer" than builds on the newer branches.  not sure if we want to go
> > through that pain at this point.
> 
> I'd say bite the bullet.  Die, little c, die!  It just looks silly there
> nowadays, since the C-word has not been in our vocabulary for so long now.

Would this count as a "core dump"? :P


(Sorry)
Dave