While reviewing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044700 salimma noticed that the Forge macros are producing NVRs that aren't in line with the policy at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/#_snapshots (specifically, the policy leverages the caret/tilde operators and puts the snapshot in the version, not the release).
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 36 development cycle. Changing version to 36.
(In reply to Davide Cavalca from comment #0) > While reviewing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044700 salimma > noticed that the Forge macros are producing NVRs that aren't in line with > the policy at > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/ > #_snapshots (specifically, the policy leverages the caret/tilde operators > and puts the snapshot in the version, not the release). You reference the new licensing scheme here. Have you checked whether the forge macros follow the traditional versionning scheme which is mentioned there, too? It still "may be used" according to the guidelines, and it is in use at least for some packages. So, I assume this is more of an RFE to update the forge macros to the new scheme?
Hi, I just filed the PR [0] that implements '%forgeversion' macro to use in a `Version:` tag instead of actual version. It has some limitations, of course: - `%version` has to be defined before `%forgemeta`; - `%forgemeta` has to precede `Version`, obviously; - it does nothing with ~.pre/~.rc, as it is almost impossible to make any heuristics on how people mark prereleases; But it does one usially annoying thing: it allows inclusion of snapshot id into version number with ease. Unless the new switch `-n` is used with `%forgemeta` its behavior remains unchanged. [0] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/pull-request/223 Thank you, Sergey
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39.
As part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Revitalize_Forge_Macros, the forge macros were moved out of redhat-rpm-config and into a new forge-srpm-macros project. The new package has implemented %forgeversion functionality in a different, more robust way. Thanks Davide and Sergey for getting this started.