[arch-dev-public] switching to systemd-stable

[Christian Hesse]

Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> on Sat, 2017/07/01 13:22:
> Hey all,
> 
> This should be pretty much a no-brainer, but wanted to be sure I wasn't
> missing anything. Systemd upstream publishes a "systemd-stable" repo [1]
> which branches at each tag and cherry-picks backports. I'd like to
> switch our systemd package to this repo to avoid some of the duplication
> of work that Jan, Christian and myself have done in the past. The repo
> sees a bunch more activity than what our own backporting strategy has
> been, and I see that as a positive.
> 
> One potentially bikeshed-worthy question is versioning. Do we count
> commits and modify the pkgver every time we build from the repo, e.g.
> 233.23-1 (meaning pkgrel=1 of a v233 build containing 23 backports), or
> do we simply keep the base pkgver true to upstream and increment pkgrel
> every time we release, e.g. 233-5 (meaning pkgrel=5 of some build of the
> v233 stable branch).
>
> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable

I like the versioning to indicate what the package contains... So voting for
the inclusion of commit count. The only downside will be that people will
flag the package out-of-date for every new commit in the stable branch. :-p
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