From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: GNOME updater Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:34:09 -0600 Message-ID: <576d0745048d9278ec792a947e993c46@openmailbox.org> References: <87twntsx0y.fsf@gnu.org> <20151208151811.7e16a0f0@debian-netbook> <87a8pl9dqc.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6gl6-0008Kv-GL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:34:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6gl2-0001Kc-2T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:34:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a8pl9dqc.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org Cc: Guix-devel On 2015-12-08 09:11, ludo@gnu.org wrote: >> Also, if we don't want to use those releases, we should check if the >> other packages also use the odd (version minor-version) numbers as a >> symbol for beta/rc releases. >=20 > This is checked for GNU packages already, and I assume there=E2=80=99s = no=20 > notion > of =E2=80=9Cunstable=E2=80=9D releases on repos such as PyPI and CRAN? "developer" releases are sometimes uploaded to CPAN. I'll try to=20 address that in the cpan updater I'm working on. --=20 `~Eric