Hi,

Tomas Volf <[email protected]> skribis:

> So, the question is, do we want some rules for the naming and versioning
> of the packages (e.g., $pkg is any *released* version, and $pkg-next is
> *any* version, often newer, possibly git snapshot or a release
> candidate)?  Or do you feel this would be governance overreach, it
> should stay strictly up to the packagers and we should just document
> that users who do not want release candidates should just always pin
> versions of everything?

I think the spirit was that “-next” (as a package name) was for
unreleased versions or version control snapshots; good examples of this
are ‘guile-next’ and ‘emacs-next’.

For released versions, we should keep the name unchanged IMO.  Examples:
[email protected], gcc-toolchain@15, openmpi@5, [email protected], etc.

Ludo’.

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