On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:18:54PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote: > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:06:33PM +0000, michael d. ivey wrote: > >> I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because > EB > >> releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my > >> package ebsnap, and made it conflict with everybuddy. I put it on my > >> site, and that was that. > >> > >> Now, I've adopted everybuddy and gotten through the NM process. I'd > like > >> to add the CVS version to unstable...but I don't know what to call it. > >> My current idea is everybuddy-cvs, and make it conflict with > everybuddy, > >> and conflict/replace ebsnap, for the people who may have downloaded > >> ebsnap. Is that the correct way to proceed? > >> > >> I'll be doing the rename and the upload sometime early next week. > > Ben> Keep it the same name. Woody is unstable right now, there are > Ben> a lot of packages that are pre-release just for the sake of > Ben> testing and working out bugs. So, IMO, keep it the same name, > Ben> and version it appropriately. Also might add "This is a CVS > Ben> build" at the bottom of the description. > > Sorry, but that is *wrong*. > > What happens when we release and everybuddy is still not stable? Do > we pull it out if it's too unstable? Why, of course we will. Which > would leave our users w/o everybuddy. > > Or we could pull it, and replace it with the last stable... oops, the > version number will be lower. So we'd need an epoch. Very bad. > > I've lobbied Clint Adams for doing both a zsh 3.0 and a 3.1 package. > I wouldn't want to see other packages going that "unstable is the > greatest, fuck the users who want bulletproof stable". > > I think it's obvious I feel strongly about this...
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