On May 18, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> wrote:
> I suppose this is going to result in foo-1.2-7.fc3.1,
foo-1.2-9.fc4.1
> and foo-1.2-10.fc5 (rawhide), all of them containing the fix. You
> can't just use the version tag to identify packages containing the
> fix.
If the buggy version was foo-1.2-7, then the fixed is
foo-1.2-8.fc3
foo-1.2-8.fc4
foo-1.2-8.fc4.89.105
All of the above had the bug and have to be fixed, and -8 won't do it
for them.
The idea is that trivial changes like rebuilds don't even need to
bumb
the release tag (or the buildid component).
That's good. But it still doesn't cover the case of patches being
added to the package, which is what got foo-1.2 bumped from -7 to -9
between FC3 and FC4.
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