On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

I've noticed that (mostly Smooge) has been using the minor release bump
(e.g., the .1 after the ?dist)

<pkgrel>[.<extraver>][.<snapinfo>]%{?dist}[.<minorbump>]

in initial EPEL8 package versions that have been branched from Fedora.  I
just want to understand the reasoning behind this.  I would think the main
motivation would be if there was an upgrade path between EPEL8 and Fedora,
but I don't think such a thing would ever exist.

I guess it might also make sense if a packager plans to maintain a single
spec for Fedora and EPEL8(?), but not if EPEL8 is going to be maintained
as a separate branch.


I will say that I was doing this via cargo-cult. I noticed hat people
were doing this for packages which were mainly minor build changes and
we have a lot of cranky people who want consistency between their
branches. I rely on them being less cranky at me so I followed what
was being done in their packages across the board.

If that however is not what I was supposed to do.. I apologize.

No problem here - I just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking anything.

Scott
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