On Friday 05 March 2010 17:54:25 Marq Schneider wrote: > I wanted to ask: why did botan get updated to using the development > (1.9.x) branch instead of the stable (1.8.x) branch? Arch jumped from > 1.8.5 to 1.9.3 back in November. I am all for keeping packages > up-to-date, but i am not sure that i agree with hopping to the > development branch. I don't follow the botan mailing list at all, but > the stable branch is still worked on (now up to 1.8.8). If nothing > requires 1.9.x, would it do any harm to revert botan to 1.8.x? No one notice us of this before.
Someone flagged it as out-of-date and I, stupid, updated it without look at upstream site where they say that botan 1.9.x is the development trunk. I am looking if this will broke anything, otherwise I will proceed downgrading botan to 1.8.8. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
