On Friday 05 March 2010 17:54:25 Marq Schneider wrote:
I wanted to ask: why did botan get updated to using the development (1.9.x) branch instead of the stable (1.8.x) branch? Arch jumped from 1.8.5 to 1.9.3 back in November. I am all for keeping packages up-to-date, but i am not sure that i agree with hopping to the development branch. I don't follow the botan mailing list at all, but the stable branch is still worked on (now up to 1.8.8). If nothing requires 1.9.x, would it do any harm to revert botan to 1.8.x? No one notice us of this before.
Someone flagged it as out-of-date and I, stupid, updated it without look at upstream site where they say that botan 1.9.x is the development trunk. I am looking if this will broke anything, otherwise I will proceed downgrading botan to 1.8.8. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer