[Fedora-packaging] Against what package do I file this BZ?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 20:34:50 UTC 2013


On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 08:14:17 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:

> There is at least one (likely more) scripts in use for doing mass
> rebuilds that are incorrectly bumping the release value. I noticed this
> before and brought it up in IRC but didn't file a bug then.
> 
> What's going on is that the script is incrementing the release by 1 but
> is not rounding off the value. So, for example, from one package I
> maintain (perl-qpid_proton) I see the following in the %changelog:

The spec file is bad:

  Release:        3.1%{?dist}

This is a non-standard release versioning scheme, and certainly the
bumpspec script should not mess with that value beyond bumping the
most-significant number.

Odd is how the release value has been increased before:

> * Mon Jul 22 2013 Petr Pisar - 0.4-2.1
> - Perl 5.18 rebuild
> 
> * Mon Apr  1 2013 Darryl L. Pierce - 0.4-1.1
> - Changed the qpid-proton dependency to qpid-proton-c.
> - Changed the qpid-proton-devel dependency to qpid-proton-c-devel.
> 
> * Fri Mar  1 2013 Darryl L. Pierce - 0.4-1
> - Rebased on Proton 0.4.


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