Query about package versioning

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 05:28:02PM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> 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.

[ Can you please keep me in "To" list. I don't want to scan mailing list
  to figure out if somebody responded to my mail or not ]

Why %dist should be at the end? html page I referenced previously mentions
that one can use x.%{dist}.y kind of release number in select cases.

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

I think this will work too. As 23 got frozen in time and master and later
releases will always be higher. And that would not break upgradability.

Thanks
Vivek