Sean Middleditch wrote:
Could someone please explain why the distro version matters in any
way
shape or form for any packages save the two or three things like
'fedora-release' ?
(clean) Upgradability from packages currently in fedora, before Fedora Core
existed.
If you're package is depending on the distro
version, and not the actual components in the distro, your package is
probably broken.
In general, I agree with you. I can also assure you, there are good
reasons for (sometimes) doing it, but I digress...
If you read the original post, Axel's concern to upgradability from the
previous fedora release naming standard. A concern of mine is that I
maintain packages for all redhat releases going back to rh73, and I do it
all from a single src.rpm, and dynamically generate a Release tag based
upon the contents of /etc/redhat-release. Like Axel, I also would like to
maintain upgradability from previous releases. I argue that having to
increment Epoch solely for the purpose overcoming the Release drop (9 ->
0.9 ) to maintain upgrade paths is yucky.
-- Rex