bad use of "Dist Tag" in some packages of rawhide

Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Sat Nov 2 18:39:38 UTC 2013


Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> BAD use of %{dist} tag(75):
>> ==========================
>> afpfs-ng-0.8.1-13.fc21.3.src.rpm 13.fc21.3
> [and many similar examples]
> 
> NOTABUG: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches
> (the next paragraph right after the one you linked to).

_rawhide_ is not an *old branch* . And it never was.

To have {?dist}.X in rawhide should be impossible.

It breaks the laws of thermodynamics!!


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