On 5/29/07, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:51:58AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On 5/28/07, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:59:11PM -0600, Scott Horowitz wrote: > > > > On 5/28/07, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My fear with updating a full integer is having people say, "why > > > > > hasn't x86 > > > > > updated to -5?!? arch64 has -5, why does x86 only have -4?!? are we > > > > > that > > > > > far behind?!?" I always thought of the -1.1 notation as being a > > > > > revision > > > > > of the revision. > > > > > > > > What makes you think people won't ask why x86 hasn't updated to -1.2? > > > > If version numbers don't match in _any_ way, people will undoubtedly > > > > be confused. And who can blame them? > > > > > > > > I find decimals in the pkgrel to be overly confusing myself. Frankly, > > > > I would just bump the pkgrel and release a new package for x86 as > > > > well, even if it's an identical package. Arch already requires lots of > > > > bandwidth (come on xdelta! :D) and I doubt these situations arise > > > > frequently. > > > > > > I'm pretty sure you'd hear just as many people complaining about having to > > > download packages that are no different than the ones they already have. > > > Also developers grumbling and arch64 forcing them to rebuild and upload > > > packages that didn't change. > > > > Why would packages need to be rebuilt? Just to match versions? That's > > the reason we use the cvs tags - CURRENT and CURRENT-64 point to the > > current versions in CVS. Rebuilding simply to match versions seems a > > little daft to me. > > It does. But how many mark out of dates do you think we'll get because > arch64 is -2 and x86 is -1? We barely know why half of the mark out of > dates happen now...
Hmm I've never gotten a "out of date" for that reason. Sure, some are false, but I usually follow up... I highly doubt people mark things due to reports on the arch site. Usually I see an announcement on my freshmeat feed and the package is marked within hours. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
