Re: [arch-general] Official policy on beta releases in mainline repos

2014-12-06 Thread Troy Engel
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Antonio Rojas wrote: > > There are usually very specific reasons why beta packages are pushed to the > repos. For instance krecipes and krusader haven't seen a stable release for > 5+ years and Sourceforge lists the betas as default download for both > projects. Un

Re: [arch-general] Official policy on beta releases in mainline repos

2014-12-06 Thread Antonio Rojas
Troy Engel wrote: > > I'm specifically concerned about the choice to release betas of > freerdp into mainline and was trying to find out what the policy was > and when it was deemed OK to release betas. (as with grub). I am not > finding the reason for a freerdp upgrade documented to use the betas

[arch-general] Official policy on beta releases in mainline repos

2014-12-06 Thread Troy Engel
If this is on the wiki or elsewhere I've missed it, please feel free to direct me there. What is the official policy on beta releases in the mainline repositories? Is there one? $ pacman -Ss | grep ^[a-z] | grep beta core/grub 1:2.02.beta2-5 extra/foobillard++ 3.42beta-5 extra/frozen-bubble 2.2.1b