On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:43:23AM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:45:44PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add telepathy-idle.
> >> 
> >> * gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm (telepathy-idle): New variable.
> >
> >> +    (version "0.2.0")
> >
> > Looks good, but why use this release when there appears to be a newer
> > version, 0.99.11?
> >
> > https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-idle/
> 
> I'm under the impression that those are unstable versions, hence the
> sudden jump in version number. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre packages this
> version, so I thought it would be safe.

Can you ask the upstream developers? Or poke around in their public
communications to find some statement about this?