Bug 593077

On Fedora 14, it looks like tor now has a more recent version, from the recommended list you mentioned.  Should this bug report be closed as fixed?

$ rpm -q tor tor-core tor-lsb
tor-0.2.1.26-1400.fc14.x86_64
tor-core-0.2.1.26-1400.fc14.x86_64
tor-lsb-0.2.1.26-1400.fc14.noarch

Actually TOR is up to 0.2.1.27, now.  Man this program changes quickly.

https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en

And the Release Notes look like they make some fairly significant bug fixes.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/release-0.2.1:/ChangeLog

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.27-1200.fc12
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.27-1300.fc13
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.27-1400.fc14

(hint: they will never hit stable without enough karma...)

error: Failed dependencies:
	tor-lsb = 0.2.1.27-1400.fc14 is needed by tor-0.2.1.27-1400.fc14.i686

(In reply to comment #3)
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.27-1200.fc12
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.27-1300.fc13
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.27-1400.fc14

Why the strange versioning?

@comment 5:

to guarantee the upgrade path (e.g. when f13 gets it karma before f14, or there is needed a rebuild, lower fedora version might have a more recent package).


@comment 4:

how did you tested this?  afais, the updates are still pending and the updates-testing repository does not have the new version yet

(In reply to comment #6)
> to guarantee the upgrade path (e.g. when f13 gets it karma before f14, or there
> is needed a rebuild, lower fedora version might have a more recent package).

You hardly get feedback for the updates and mention automatic pushes as a reason for your versioning? That does not mix and it is very unlikely that the old package gets more feedback than the one from the recent release (look at the problems we are having now with F12 and to some extent bug continuously rising with F13, ).

IMHO you should never rely on automatic pushes but take care of the upgrade path manually.

In case of a rebuild on the older Fedora release you are supposed to add a number after the disttag, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches

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