Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes: > * For a given version X.Y.Z, the release cycle behaves like this: > > * Before the release is announced, any number of X.Y.Z.N release > candidates may be published. Based on what we saw just recently, as > new releases are added, the old ones will be removed from the main > download location. > > * Once the release is announced, no further X.Y.Z.N release candidates > will be published, and the last "N" is used as the X.Y.Z release. > > So, the reason 5.4.7.2 replaced 5.4.7.1 when it came out is because the > 5.4.7 release hasn't been announced yet. Until the 5.4.7 release has > been announced, we might see more release candidates (e.g., 5.4.7.3).
Oh, that’s counter intuitive. I would have thought that 5.4.7.3 would be more recent than 5.4.7, and I think that the Guix version comparator would agree. Does this mean we should avoid release candidates? >>> FYI, when I asked on the LibreOffice IRC channel, they told me that old >>> releases can be found here: >>> >>> http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/5.4.7.1/src/libreoffice-5.4.7.1.tar.xz >>> >>> Maybe we should add the "old" archives (and mirrors thereof, if any >>> exist) to the list of mirrors, so that when they remove a published >>> release, we have a chance of automatically fetching it from the "old" >>> archives. What do you think? >> >> Yes, we should add this alternate address. > > Actually, today they told me that the "old" location contains > everything, even the new releases. To simplify things, perhaps we > should always just use the "old" location. What do you think? It’s fine to use both. -- Ricardo