2 Dec
2010
2 Dec
'10
5:04 p.m.
On Thursday 02 December 2010 16:54:31 Xyne wrote:
Peter Lewis wrote:
My view would be that if a package builds a semi-stable but unreleased version (from wherever) which has been selected by the packager or upstream, then the package should be suffixed by -dev, -prerelease -unstable or something similar.
For the removal of confusion, -git -svn etc. should *track* the VCS in my view.
For clarity, the only tag that I referred to in my previous post was the "vcs" tag. I agree with your comments regarding other suffixes. I think my proposed rule-of-thumb still works because the PKGBUILD for semi-stable releases still generates a fixed binary package.
Indeed :-)