[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release evolution-3.3.90-2.mga2

Wed Feb 29 12:06:46 CET 2012

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:40, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> Am 29.02.2012 11:31, schrieb Kamil Rytarowski:
+>>
+>> On 29.02.2012 11:26, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>>
+>>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+>>>
+>>>> On 29.02.2012 00:10, Olav Vitters wrote:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> and no need to mention you're bumping the release; if you didn't, the
+>>>>> buildsystem wouldn't allow you to submit
+>>>>>
+>>>> There is one bug. If you are rebuilding, without bumping the release,
+>>>> when
+>>>> the previous build was for mgaX and the current is for mgaY (where Y>X)
+>>>> then BS is allowing to build.
+>>>
+>>> That's not a bug, if you are rebuilding the same package on a new mageia
+>>> release without any change to the spec file, there is no need to bump
+>>> the release.
+>>>
+>> But what will happen if a package will be updated in an old Mageia
+>> release? Then it won't be updateable without bumping release for a newer
+>> Mga release.
+>
+> No, because updating is done using subrel
+> And e.g. 2.1.mga1 < 2.mga2
+
+Sadly, no, 2.1.mga1 > 2.mga2
+But I would expect that an update to a stable release also needs to be
+done on newer ones if the package was not changed.
+