[aur-general] Package `pijul` in both AUR and Community-Testing

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/30/21 9:35 PM, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote:
> On 21-06-30 15:05, alad via aur-general wrote:
>> The question if the package will ever make it to community - most people
>> won't have community-testing enabled. It's not very typical for new packages
>> that weren't in the repositories before. My guess it was because an alpha
>> version was packaged, which shouldn't have been packaged in the repos in the
>> first place.
>>
>> Alad
>>
> 
> I'm the packager for pijul (in community).
> 
> There's a decent chunk of packages in community that have alpha/beta
> releases so I assumed it was OK. Apologies if this is not the case.


It's not *actively monitored*, but this is really not supposed to
happen... sometimes it does happen anyway if the current version is very
buggy and currently breaking people's systems, upstream is not tagging a
new release any time soon, and using an alpha/beta will improve the
state of affairs, but that's pretty different from uploading a brand new
package as an alpha, and one that nothing else depends on even.

e.g. a notable one that I'm aware of is qt5-webkit which unfortunately
is not very well maintained by Qt and the alpha by annulen provides life
support with e.g. various needed security fixes.


-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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