[arch-general] Please stop abusing of the out-of-date option

[Ray Rashif]

On 2 December 2011 04:06, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:

> Am Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:41:46 +0100
> schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>:
>
> > Do not report as out-of-date packages whose release policy you are not
> > familiar with...
>
> Better ask upstream to not release a development version as a stable
> release regardless of their versioning scheme.
>
> Heiko
>

Yes, this does happen. Some software have stable releases that are years
old, so people use the development releases as stable ones instead and
ignore the ones upstream call stable. We even have some packages like that,
but I can't recall which.

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