On 06/26/2013 11:33 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 06/25/2013 10:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I've just finished a new build of a substantial (about 230 packages) 
>> part of BLFS.  After I finished and got a working system, I decided to 
>> go back and check the sources' websites to see if the packages we have 
>> are current or not.  In many cases, we are current but there are quite a 
>> few cases where we are not.
>>
>> I have a question about gnome based packages.  My understanding is that 
>> even numbered minor packages are stable versions and odd numbered 
>> versions are development versions.  For instance, we are using 
>> pango-1.32.5, but there is a 1.34.1 version.  I think the 1.35.0 version 
>> is development only.
>>
>> On the other hand, we are using libxklavier-5.3, which is the latest, 
>> but shouldn't we be using  libxklavier-5.2.1?
>>
>> I'm going to follow this up with a much longer post with what we have 
>> and what I find that is the latest versions, but sometimes I'm unsure 
>> what really is the latest stable package version.  Really, the only site 
>> I have a problem with is those at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/
>>
>> Generally, it takes a lot of effort to check the currency for all the 
>> different packages because of the different styles of the way upstream 
>> developers present their packages.  For now I'm going to skip Xorg, KDE, 
>> and XFCE and concentrate on the support packages I've already built.
>>
>>    -- Bruce
>>
> 
> Packages which use odd/even minor version numbering (unstable/stable)
> p11-kit
> pixman
> poppler
> graphviz
> colord
> dbus
> webkitgtk
> all packages hosted at gnome.org except libxklavier, libnotify,
> polkit-gnome, libsecret, networkmanager and network-manager-applet.

Add gtk-doc to this list - basicaly all packages which don't have
"patch" version, only major and minor one. For now only packages in blfs
are gtk-doc and libsecret iirc.

> gstreamer 1.x releases
> 
> 
> Packages which add .9xx version number which marks release as unstable
> 
> fontconfig
> udisks
> xorg packages
> ibus
> networkmanager
> network-manager-applet
> packages in Xorg chapter
> kde.org hosted packages
> 
> As for Xfce, they don't release any development versions or if  they do,
> they don't mark any as development version.
> 

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