Re: [ACTION REQUIRED v4] Retiring packages for F-18

[Jon Ciesla <limburgher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 10:15 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>
>> For endusers, the date is more handy for seeing whether the package is
>> based
>> on newer or older upstream versions than the scm's hash.
>
>
> But do we specifically say what you're supposed to put in the date field?
> Is it the date the hash was created?  The date the hash was added to a
> specific branch?  The date the hash was checked out by the Fedora dev and
> built in the build system?
>
> The guidelines say at one place that the date used should be the date the
> snapshot was made, which can be pretty disconnected from the date the hash
> was created or merged.
>
> A date without clear rules or context is just meaningless digits.

If you can suggest a clarification of wording, it sounds like an
EASYFIX for FPC.

-J

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