[packagers] RPMForge disttag format?

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> What I'm seeing is that rpms from Dag and Matthias are nolonger using the
> format with a numeric prefix as described in naming-policy.txt.
> Dries on the other hand seems to be using the old format even with fc6.
> 
> Since I build a number of local packages and have implemented the old RPMForge
> format in my .rpmmacros I'd like to know if there's some consensus on the
> future direction of the RPMForge disttag format?

Yes, the direction we took was that we increased the Release tag of all 
packages from X to X.2 and dropped the numeric prefix. This allowed us to 
migrate away from the numeric prefic without any issues.

New version updates to packages will remove the X.2 and start from 1 
again. New release updates will move from X to X+1 (so that X.2 < X+1) :)

It has not been discussed in public since it idn't directly affect anyone 
other than us, at least that's what we thought. I guiess we were wrong :)

So if you still see X.2.fc6 packages instead of X.fc6 that just means 
there has not been a version update of that package since we implemented 
this new scheme. And for that reason the X.2.fc6 is still important to 
drag around (so that X.2.fc5 < X.2.fc6). For any version update the 
numeric release is gone (even for Dries).

Let me know if you still have any concerns about this.

Kind regards,
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