On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:59 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:02 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> Forgot to mention the case I consider to be the most broken version:
> * N.M%{?dist}
> with unclear meaning of M
>
> E.g. these packages have just been released for FE6:
> dejavu-fonts-2.7.0-0.15.fc6
dejavu is based on a 2.7 prerelease. Probably should have some sort of
"pre" in the Release tag.
Why? The tar ball's release and the
rpm's release don't have to be
connected.
I'd recommend to start with V: 2.7.0 and R: 1%{?dist}
and to increment the Release tag, when a newer pre release or a final
tarball is released and exchanged inside of the spec.
(An alternative would be to use a different %Version, but that's a
problem of its own.)
Ralf