From: Felipe Contreras Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:13:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] version-gen: avoid messing the version Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130909233028.GB101065@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > 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 -- Felipe Contreras