[Kde-extra-gear] Re: the stable tag

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:49, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:10, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > > Something I will always tell to all packagers which wants to make
> > > packages of my software (knetload in this case, but also eventual new
> > > apps I will submit to keg) is: "never take the cvs, always take my
> > > released unmodified tarball".
> >
> > Well, the Kile release_1_6_3 is precisely equal to the
> > kile-1.6.3.tar.bz2. So I don't see your point.
>
> So, to summarize:
>
> All we need to do is add an additional tag "LATEST_STABLE", which is moved
> by the app mainainer after every stable release. E.g., Jeroen releases Kile
> 1.6.3, tags it kile_1_6_3, and then also tags it LATEST_STABLE.
>
> If this is the plan I think it's very little work and completely
> acceptable.

Indeed! This was the proposal of Helio (at least as I understood it).

best,
Jeroen
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