On May 14, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:51:56AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Frankly, I don't see the point of disttags for the core packages.
> [...] when are they useful for packages in the Core?
o for first it will certainly not hurt at all.
o it will enable the cousing fedoralegacy to have clean backbuilds.
o it will enable Red Hat to have decent common errata for multiple
non-EOLed releases.
o it will enable rawhide to have good upgrade paths for unchanged
packages, e.g. bump the disttag from fc1.90 to fc1.91 to rebuild all
packages for test2.
o it will provide a coherent specification for Red Hat and third party
repos to use. Asking of repos to change/apply vereioning specs w/o
Red Hat to follow is not going to work.
o there will be no more big threads about disttags w/o a resolution :)
You seem to have good points. I'm convinced. Unfortunately, I have
no say on what happens to Fedora Core packages, other than what I talk
developers into doing by filing bug reports in bugzilla :-)
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