johnsonm(a)redhat.com ("Michael K. Johnson") writes:
> But tags need to be standardized, and there was a looong and
mostly
No, they don't. Not necessarily. When the tag is there for the
convenience of the packager, it's the packager's job (within reason)
to select the tag.
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...
Enrico