[aur-general] TU Application: Dave Reisner

Peter Lewis plewis at aur.archlinux.org
Thu Dec 2 15:06:54 CET 2010


On Thursday 02 December 2010 14:08:07 Allan McRae wrote:
> On 03/12/10 00:01, Kaiting Chen wrote:
> > A little tangent but from this page it seems to me that a '-git' or
> > '-svn' suffix should only be applied when there is a version of the
> > package without that suffix in the name; this is to differentiate
> > between the 'stable' and the 'development' version of the same package.
> 
> I think a -git suffix should be used always when the PKGBUILD is
> building from git sources.

+1

Also, remember that the version without the -git suffix is often in another 
repo, so doesn't show up on an AUR search.

Pete.


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