Query about package versioning

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:28:02 +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.

No. See:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches