Hi, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> skribis: > >> In Guix, we commit to offer officially released packages where >> available/feasible. Some projects produce release that are not >> "stable", such as GStreamer, and our 'guix refresh' tool can't currently >> tell the difference: >> >> $ guix lint gstreamer-docs >> [...] >> [email protected]: can be upgraded to 1.19.2 >> >> For GStreamer, every odd minor release version indicates a development >> snapshot (unstable) release. > > Ah that’s an interesting case. The ‘gnome’ updater checks for odd minor > release numbers already. But in this case, it’s the ‘generic-html’ > updater that kicks in, which is nice, except it doesn’t know about the > odd/even scheme. > > So yes, we could have a property like you suggest that the > ‘generic-html’ and ‘generic-git’ updaters (at least) would honor. GNOME is moving away from such a versioning scheme, reflected by this 2 year old commit of mine: 5dd3acd0a0941ff9764959b313aae48095c66312 ("import: gnome: Improve version handling logic."). Thus, the use case seems to have vanished. Let's close for now. -- Thanks, Maxim
