As I understood this the discussion was about having something like SUNWimagick
in spec-files and a newer version in SFE, am I wrong here?

Darren.

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> Harry was asking about spec-files-extra.  We don't use branches there.
> 
> Laca
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:37 +0000, Darren Kenny wrote:
>> We have a stable vs devel branch for Vermillion already - what is the harm of
>> integrating the latest version (as is defined to be needed) into the devel
>> branch (trunk).
>>
>> If and OSR or ARC review is needed to bring this into Nevada proper, then it
>> should be flagged and done prior to integration to the stable branch - isn't
>> this how we work right now?
>>
>> Darren.
>>
>> Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
>>> Hi Harry,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:25 +0800, Harry Lu wrote:
>>>>    A little OT, I was thinking whether we should enable people to put
>>>> latest development version into SFE, too.
>>>>
>>>>    Maybe we could have a stable branch as we did for spec-files?
>>>>
>>>>    What do you think?
>>> It makes sense, but it's not quite as easy as in the case of GNOME.
>>> The schedules of the various components are different and so they
>>> move from devel to stable at different points in time and it's
>>> difficult to pick a set of packages that will work together.
>>> For example if pkg A in devel requires the devel version of pkg B,
>>> but pkg C only works with the stable version of pkg B.  It all depends
>>> on how stable the interfaces are.  OTOH, I'm sure many packages won't
>>> even have devel versions.  So we can give this a try but people need
>>> to be careful with the devel packages.
>>>
>>> Laca
>>>
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