On 07/31/2016 01:21 PM, Henk te Sligte wrote:
The last stable release (4.11) of Dasher is from six years ago. However, the package seems to be maintained, the last commit to the Gnome hosted repository [2] is two weeks ago. So I presume it would be the smartest to release it from git. But then the package would be called dasher-git, I presume? I can also go back a few commits before, to 5.0 beta, but that doesn't build. That has been fixed a commit later. What commit would you use to publish the package?
Well, there is nothing wrong with publishing a *-git package as well, certainly. Some people like the stable releases, some people like pulling from git HEAD. In general, you should go with whatever upstream tagged as a release, but in cases where upstream isn't really publishing releases and there are changes you want, IMHO the maintainer can go with whatever they feel is best. e.g. the trash-cli package in community, which I maintained for a while in the AUR before Pierre Neidhardt adopted it in the repos. Upstream development is more or less dead, so I was just grabbing the most recent commit directly, and resolved to update it every once in a while if I felt there was something new worth it (not that there was, really). -- Eli Schwartz