New releases for bugfixes

[Tobias C. Berner]

On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 23:46, Antonio Rojas <arojas at archlinux.org> wrote:
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> El viernes, 26 de agosto de 2022 11:27:16 (CEST) Adriaan de Groot escribió:
> > On Friday, 26 August 2022 01:35:55 CEST Ahmad Samir wrote:
> > >  From a packager's point of view, I think it is the same amount of work to
> > > grab a commit from upstream git and rebuild a package or to package a new
> > > point release.
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> > For FreeBSD things, it works like this:
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> > At the point of the patch / bugfix release, the amount of work is about the
> > same: edit one or two lines, build, done. But having multiple tweaks out
> > there, and different versions of tarballs while **also** having regular
> > "everything is back in version-number-sync now" releases is administratively
> > more complicated.
> >
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> I have to agree here - from my packaging POV using tarballs that deviate from the general versioning scheme makes things harder as it will cause conflicts with our packaging scripts. So I would appreciate if next to these tarballs we still get a list of commits so distros can decide whether they want to use tarballs or backports.

+1

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