Bug 1404165

Summary:	--dist vs --release
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component:	fedpkg	Assignee:	cqi
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	26	CC:	bochecha, carl, cqi, dennis, lsedlar, pbabinca, s
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Description Vít Ondruch 2016-12-13 09:05:46 UTC

Description of problem:
If the --dist should be replaced by --release, there are some things which should be polished. For example:

```
$ fedpkg srpm 
Could not execute srpm: Could not find the dist from branch name private-ruby-2.4
Please specify with --dist

$ fedpkg --dist f26 srpm 
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyrpkg/cli.py:37: DeprecationWarning: --dist is deprecated and will be removed in future version. Use --release instead.
  'Use --release instead.', DeprecationWarning)
```

and in manual pages:

```
--release is an alias of --dist, hence --release should be instead.
```

If that is alias or not, that is probably not reason to use one or the other. But anyway, shouldn't this be the opposite way, e.g. --dist should be alias to --release, since the --release is the new shiny thing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q fedpkg
fedpkg-1.26-2.fc26.noarch

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:46:37 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-03 08:14:54 UTC

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Comment 3 Vít Ondruch 2018-05-03 08:40:49 UTC

This works testing with recent fedpkg:

$ rpm -q fedpkg 
fedpkg-1.32-1.fc29.noarch

And fedpkg is of the same version on all fedoras => CLOSE