Query about package versioning

Marcin Juszkiewicz mjuszkiewicz at redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 16:28:02 UTC 2014


W dniu 20.02.2014 17:16, Vivek Goyal pisze:

> So instead of increasing release number on released branches, why don't
> we append additional number after dist and bump that up in released
> branch. So FC21 releases will look like.
> 
>   kexec-tools-2.0.4-24.fc21.1
>   kexec-tools-2.0.4-24.fc21.2
>   ...
>   ...
>   kexec-tools-2.0.4-23.fc21.10
> 
> That way we clearly know that FC21 was forked off master release .24. And
> upgradability of package will be maintained without any change of older
> release versions getting ahead of newer release versions.

%dist should be at the end.

So rather kexec-tools-2.0.4-23.X.fc21 where X means x-th revision of
fc21 package after distribution release.



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