On 6/30/21 9:35 PM, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote: > On 21-06-30 15:05, alad via aur-general wrote: >> The question if the package will ever make it to community - most people >> won't have community-testing enabled. It's not very typical for new packages >> that weren't in the repositories before. My guess it was because an alpha >> version was packaged, which shouldn't have been packaged in the repos in the >> first place. >> >> Alad >> > > I'm the packager for pijul (in community). > > There's a decent chunk of packages in community that have alpha/beta > releases so I assumed it was OK. Apologies if this is not the case.
It's not *actively monitored*, but this is really not supposed to happen... sometimes it does happen anyway if the current version is very buggy and currently breaking people's systems, upstream is not tagging a new release any time soon, and using an alpha/beta will improve the state of affairs, but that's pretty different from uploading a brand new package as an alpha, and one that nothing else depends on even. e.g. a notable one that I'm aware of is qt5-webkit which unfortunately is not very well maintained by Qt and the alpha by annulen provides life support with e.g. various needed security fixes. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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