[Kde-extra-gear] extragear packages from branch or tag?

[Thiago Macieira]

Michael Buesch wrote:
>Will the extragear packages be created from stable branch or stable tag?
>I would prefer from branch. Which, in turn, would make the stable
>tag useless. This would reduce maintainance work, a lot.
>So I'm implicitely suggesting to drop the stable tag, now. ;)
>What do you think?

IMO "stable tag" is an anti-thetical. The purpose of the stable tag, IIUC, 
was to mark the latest version of a released program.

But tags aren't supposed to be moved.

Let me see if I understand correctly what an extragear maintainer is 
supposed to do:

- develop in trunk/extragear
- backport bugfixes to branches/stable/extragear
- when releasing, he has to:
  - create a /tags/appname/version.number tag
  - copy it to /tags/stable/appname
- if the released version is a major release, then do as well:
  - copy /branches/stable/appname to /branches/appname/version.number
  - copy /trunk/extragear/appname to /branches/stable/appname

Does it sound overkill to anyone else?
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