[CentOS-devel] Confusing package versioning

2011/5/6 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

> [...]

We are doing what we are doing
>

What a great conclusion.


> We are not changing mid stream.
> I don't care if you like it or not.
>

Also not really astonishing.


> Millions of users have built scripts that depend on certain rules, like
> our use of dist tags, to remain constant.
>

Millions of user are not able to write a script so they certainly don't have
scripts using the dist tag.

A couple of comments on a mailing list, because someone has a good idea,
> does not mean that we need to change things that cause these people to
> rewire their scripts.  It is just not going to happen mid stream.
>

The billions of people who use scripts which rely on the dist tag? But if
you don't want to improve the distribution let it as it is.

[...]
> What we CAN discuss is the possibility that in the NEWER distributions,
> we maybe do it differently (ie, C6).
>

Better would be C7, it will give the trillions of users enough time to
change there scripts which make use of the dist tag.

Regards, Thomas
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