commit: 0f31e4e31e1eae8c6a205dd05c1104fffb4e18a4 Author: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Thu Nov 24 09:28:59 2022 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Thu Nov 24 09:50:25 2022 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0f31e4e3
sys-apps/less: add note re betas Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild b/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild index 575e9a82356e..2c90aadd3c31 100644 --- a/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild +++ b/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ EAPI=8 +# Releases are usually first a beta then promoted to stable if no +# issues were found. Upstream explicitly ask "to not generally distribute" +# the beta versions. It's okay to keyword beta versions if they fix +# a serious bug, but otherwise try to avoid it. + DESCRIPTION="Excellent text file viewer" HOMEPAGE="http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/"; SRC_URI="http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/${P}-beta.tar.gz";
