Weirdness with F-18 kernel release number

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Something is wrong with how the release number for the F-18 kernel
> package is getting bumped, luckily the actual version is being
> increased most of the time too, not making it matter much, but
> still this is clearly wrong:

There's nothing wrong with it.  It's done on purpose.  It isn't luck at
play here.  The Version is higher, so the release gets reset.

> [hans at shalem ~]$ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64
> kernel-3.8.4-202.fc18.x86_64
> kernel-3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64
>
> Notice how as the kernel versions get newer the release gets
> older ...

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2013-January/004062.html

josh