On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 14:13 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Samstag, 17. März 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > IMHO I think it should be up to the package maintainer how close they > > want to follow upstream. With regard to development, progress, testing, > > qa, feedback. I think it's a very good thing, since it allows things to > > be caught before actual releases, during development. > > Doing this locally or in some development overlay is fine, but polluting the > tree with every single development build is a bad idea, imho.
Well at best I might have 2 "development" versions in tree. But most times it's just one, and I will remove older versions during any bump. So hardly any polluting going on. Definitely no worse than what occurred when the package was going unmaintained :) Also in server envs, it seems most prefer not to use overlays. From my own experiences, I can't blame them much. Even for testing servers. They will usually divert and wait to test till it hits tree :( -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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