Manuel,
'bdist_rpm' is NOT broken. What is broken is packagers misuse of the
'version' and 'release' strings. They do stupid things like put
version='3.0' and release='rc1' and then wonder why their final release
cannot update the release candidate. THIS IS A TRAINING ISSUE. Their
poorly planned sequence of release designations is not in lexical
order. They should be putting version='3.0' and release='0.rc1' or
'0_rc1' and then their final release of version='3.0' and release='1'
WILL update their release candidate. AGAIN, this is not something that
is broken with 'bdist_rpm' IT IS A TRAINING ISSUE. Packagers need to
understand the importance of lexical ordering when using RPM. You
cannot make a patch that outlaws stupidity.
I vote a big -1 on this patch because it interjects Fedora-specific
modifications into bdist_rpm.
Regards,
Gerry
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