[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Build version (build tag?) in RPM (Discussion #2031)

[Aleksandra Fedorova]

@jwboyer Sorry, I missed your comment.

> t seems like we're heading towards a solution that makes it actively harder for users to understand what is going on by hiding the Build tag but using it during transactions.

I think there is a misunderstanding: I do not propose to hide the build id in the end.

Let's say in the transition stage we have 

Name: smth
Version: 1.2.5
Release: 5.el9.{build}
Build: 1517234

And filename = {name}-{version}-{release}.rpm

Then in "After" stage we would set:

Name: smth
Version: 1.2.5
Release: 5.el9
Build: 1517234

Filename = {name}-{version}-{release}.{build}.rpm

So the outcome - visibility for the user - would be exactly the same. We would just treat Build tag differently from the tooling perspective, and advanced tools and libraries will be able to use Build tag instead of parsing release tag and guessing the value from it.

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