[aur-general] Pushing rc version of package to aur

[alad]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 14:10:19 +0200
Jan Kohnert via aur-general <aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi, 
> Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2021, 23:12:01 CEST schrieb Vince via aur-general:
> > disallowed to put release candidates into a stable package. Exceptions can
> > be read on the wiki [1].
> 
> [....]
> 
> > [1]
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_versioning
> 
> Thanks for posting the link. I was uite sure having read this somewhere but 
> couldn't find it anymore (I have been on the wrong wiki page). 
> 
Not even packages in the official repository follow this rule - sometimes even pulling from git master - so there's nothing that strictly prevents you from packaging an RC on AUR. 

And doing so because the old release can't be built without heavy patching sounds like a good reason (even the rule above covers that case).

Alad

> -- 
> MfG Jan


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