Re: [PATCH 2/2] version-gen: avoid messing the version

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2013, 01:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s28ZVRTRj+2cX1q0SaGyY16TZKmJtCscPUgF_hY=KJiwA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130909233028.GB101065@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM, brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:00:55AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Of course not. First of all, who exactly is packaging release
>> candidates nowadays? And second, why they can't they use the existing
>> tools, like the 'version' file?
>
> Debian unstable, for one.  However, they don't use RPMs and the version
> would be rewritten to use ~ anyway.  Fedora rawhide might.

Debian uses their own version; 1:1.8.4~rc3-1, it doesn't use Git's version 1.8.4.rc3, so if we change it to 1.8.4-rc3, that doesn't affect them one bit because they are not using it anyway.

As for Fedora rawhide, they don't even use rc versions:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1864

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Felipe Contreras