If there is a problem we move right to 1.6.4 and never release 1.6.3
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On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:47 PM, petesea_at_bigfoot.com wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>
>> Distro package maintainers, please do NOT include any pre-release
>> builds, even blessed, into operating system distros. The reasons for
>> not doing so were very eloquently outlined by Karl in a mail, which
>> is
>> summarized at the above address.
>
> Since there's such a strong warning that a release candidate should
> not be
> used for any production purpose, is there a particular reason the
> package
> names don't reflect this?
>
> Perhaps the filenames of the distro should make it clearer, eg:
>
> subversion-1.6.3.rc1.tar.bz2
>
> I'm not saying the internal version string necessarily needs to
> change,
> but it seems at least the package filenames should be different.
> (Although changing both the internal version string and the initial
> directory in the distro would make it even clearer this is a RC.)
>
> If only the package filenames are changed and this particular RC is
> moved
> to a production state, then all that's required is a change to the
> filenames.
>
> I can certainly see myself downloading this version for testing and
> then
> sometime later (after it's released) downloading the released
> version only
> to realize I already have it... forgetting they are not the same
> thing.
>
> I think it's better to have packages with different filenames, which
> are
> in fact the same:
>
> subversion-1.6.3.rc1.tar.bz2 (Release Candidate 1)
> subversion-1.6.3.rc2.tar.bz2 (Release Candidate 2)
> subversion-1.6.3.tar.bz2 (Final Release - same as RC2)
>
> As opposed to packages with the same filename, which are in fact
> different:
>
> subversion-1.6.3.tar.bz2 (Release Candidate 1)
> subversion-1.6.3.tar.bz2 (Release Candidate 2)
> subversion-1.6.3.tar.bz2 (Final Release - same as RC2)
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