On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 16 March 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Well that's the problem. When I use say _pre instead of _dev it gives > > off the wrong impression to users judging package by it's name. Since > > it's not a pre-release. A user may go upstream looking for some sort of > > pre-release. Which they won't find. > > isnt it though ? how is a "development" release different from a "pre" > release ?
I take it as a pre-release is more of an official release. Where in it would be easily found on a projects download page or else where. What I would consider a _dev release is something coming out of a developers space on the project. Not really announced say beyond the developers mailing list. In that same regard alpha's and beta's usually can be found on project download pages. Same I would assume for any pre-releases. Given conceptually a development release is "pre" release. But not really advertised as such by upstream. Either way it would not really fit into our hierarchy. Most times the dev release will precede an alpha or beta, sometimes does skip and is before an official release. This might help a bit http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=117251925901310&w=2 In that example a _dev is more of a snapshot, which could also be considered as pre-release :) Good old interpretation of words. P.S. OTT With regard to above link and following development that closely. Between revisions of mod_jk, not only was there a security vulnerability. But in compatible changes effect certain file extensions .jsf, that a user reported. Which they only mentioned during stabilization of a given version (literally in stabilization bug). So in a sense a version with a problem got stabilized. But was an upstream bug, effecting a small subset. So did not really merit keeping the package from going stable for others. But bug was not filed with upstream either till 30+ days after release due to our stabilization policies and etc. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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