On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:10 -0400, bill-auger wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:52:48 +0300 Wael wrote:
> > The idea from it is that flashrom-stable is as the name implies just more
> > stable
> > for the most part while also focusing on good support on what it currently
> > offers - as opposed to the upstream which prioritizes (breaking) changes.
> 
> ok but my point is, to have two duplicate packages, the pkgdesc should not be
> identical - but that difference is not worth mentioning in the pkgdesc;
> because
> it is not relevant to the binary package, nor any user's decision of which
> package to install
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:52:48 +0300 Wael wrote:
> > It actually might still be relevant to offer both, as while they overlap in
> > some
> > of the functionality - yet there are enough differences between them to
> > merit a
> > split I think.
> 
> ok, so can we describe those notable differences in a very few words?
> 
> if so, what would those words be?
> 
> is say, "stable version" meaningful enough to influence a user's decision?
> 
> would we also need to re-package 'flashrom' to change its pkgdesc?
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I think the answer is yes to both, for the most part it ought to be more stable.


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Wael Karram.


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