[aur-general] Should {libwebkit,libsoup}-newest be deleted

Nezmer at allurelinux.org Nezmer at allurelinux.org
Tue Oct 13 18:06:24 EDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:56:00PM +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:15 PM, <Nezmer at allurelinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > As you might already know , webkit-gtk and its dependency libsoup are
> > always under heavy development . I added {libwebkit,libsoup}-newest
> > PKGBUILDS to the AUR because libwebkit releases started to depend on
> > development releases from libsoup(2.27.x) .
> >
> > With gnome 2.28.x entering extra , the *-newest packages provide the
> > same versions available in the official repos.
> >
> > Should I ask for the deletion of those packages ? Or keep them around in
> > case webkit starts to depend on libsoup 2.29.x ?
> >
> 
> As the odd releases indicate development versions how about calling it
> -unstable instead of -newest? That way you can just jump from .27 to .29. It
> probably doesn't take long before 2.29.1 is released.
> 
> Ronald
I called them newest because there was no indication the webkit releases
were considered unstable upstream.

Anyway , If you think renaming to *-unstable is the best practice ,
please delete the *-newest ones .


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