On 5/28/07, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:59:11PM -0600, Scott Horowitz wrote: > > On 5/28/07, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My fear with updating a full integer is having people say, "why hasn't x86 > > > updated to -5?!? arch64 has -5, why does x86 only have -4?!? are we that > > > far behind?!?" I always thought of the -1.1 notation as being a revision > > > of the revision. > > > > What makes you think people won't ask why x86 hasn't updated to -1.2? > > If version numbers don't match in _any_ way, people will undoubtedly > > be confused. And who can blame them? > > > > I find decimals in the pkgrel to be overly confusing myself. Frankly, > > I would just bump the pkgrel and release a new package for x86 as > > well, even if it's an identical package. Arch already requires lots of > > bandwidth (come on xdelta! :D) and I doubt these situations arise > > frequently. > > I'm pretty sure you'd hear just as many people complaining about having to > download packages that are no different than the ones they already have. > Also developers grumbling and arch64 forcing them to rebuild and upload > packages that didn't change.
Why would packages need to be rebuilt? Just to match versions? That's the reason we use the cvs tags - CURRENT and CURRENT-64 point to the current versions in CVS. Rebuilding simply to match versions seems a little daft to me. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
