On Thursday 02 December 2010 16:54:31 Xyne wrote: > Peter Lewis wrote: > > My view would be that if a package builds a semi-stable but unreleased > > version (from wherever) which has been selected by the packager or > > upstream, then the package should be suffixed by -dev, -prerelease > > -unstable or something similar. > > > > For the removal of confusion, -git -svn etc. should *track* the VCS in my > > view. > > For clarity, the only tag that I referred to in my previous post was the > "vcs" tag. I agree with your comments regarding other suffixes. I think my > proposed rule-of-thumb still works because the PKGBUILD for semi-stable > releases still generates a fixed binary package.
Indeed :-)
