On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:11:18PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
Such non-standardized tags will cause conflicts with automatic
buildsystems. For a clean update-path a disttag-change is needed for new
releases. What do you think happens at mass-rebuilds (e.g. rh9* -> fc1
transition) when every packager chooses an own disttag-scheme? Either,
the packager would have to resubmit a new version (inclusive the QA
trail) or the buildmaster would have to change the tags manually.
Both methods are not really an option, imo...
Sorry, I think I was operating on insufficient context. I was
stuck in the base distribution -- Fedora Core, not third party
repositories. Please excuse that...
Before I give any more pronouncements on this, I'd like to more
carefully study the issues.
michaelkjohnson
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