[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 192912] Review Request: paps

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:10 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:49 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> >>>  In Extras? No.
> >> Yes. There exist packagers who (In FE devel)
> >> * don't use %{?dist} at all
> >> * some use N%{?dist} and increment N with each iteration.
> > 
> > These are correct...
> > 
> >> * some use N%{?dist}.M and increment M with each build-iteration 
> > 
> > ...and these are not. More bugs to file!
> 
> I'd argue there are valid cases for using this latter construct(*), like 
> fixing a packaging bug/error limited to only one fedora 
> release/platform.  I'd agree that that it's use should be rare.

I agree there are valid cases for doing this on "non-devel", but I can't
imagine any reason for doing this on "devel".

> (*) especially for those packagers (like myself) that prefer to keep a 
> single specfile sync'd for all fedora releases.

Increment N, %{?dist} will do the rest.

Ralf