On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:11 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]> wrote: > There seems to be a generic watch file for multiple GNOME projects > (attached). That file does not make uscan see alpha|beta|rc releases. > > Would it be desirable to watch also such releases? > … > would make uscan see everything. Or possibly a compromise would be > better. Only rc? Or rc and beta?
I think the Debian GNOME team is in agreement that watching for alpha releases isn't very helpful since we don't generally package those but we do package stable point releases that are released later than the alphas. Watching for rc releases seems useful since there aren't many changes from rc to the .0 release. Any bugs identified then and reported might be fixed in time for .0 and benefit everyone instead of waiting several weeks until a .1 release. That leaves beta. Last year, we did package the beta releases and often even pushed them to Unstable. I support making the watch files more usable to maintainers and I think watching for beta releases is more useful than not. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
