[Fedora-packaging] version-release for different branches

Jon Ciesla limburgher at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 15:13:57 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:03 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.racca at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have the following situation. I have a package whose version-release in
> f17/16 is 0.1.14-2, but in f18/master branches it is 0.1.14-3 (because of a
> f18 mass rebuild). Suppose I'm going to update the spec file, so in
> f18/master branches the new version-release will be 0.1.14-4, and for f17/16
> branches if I "git merge master", then the release will jump from 2 to 4. Is
> this ok? Or should I keep working with different releases for different
> branches and forget about "git merge master" in lower branches?

In f18, you would git merge master.  In f17, git merge f18.  In f16,
git merge f17.  But jumping from 2 to 4 is fine, too.

-J

> All the best,
> Germán.
>
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