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In-Reply-To: <5bf5f6fc-a7f3-48c8-9b6c-811923af0bab@app.fastmail.com> (Philip McGrath's message of "Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:21:59 -0500") References: <87pln1ztz6.fsf@subvertising.org> <21D166F6-8D68-4288-AE40-F6323DF6DC71@subvertising.org> <5bf5f6fc-a7f3-48c8-9b6c-811923af0bab@app.fastmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:21:03 +0000 Message-ID: <8734jwprrk.fsf@subvertising.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a11:7980:1::2:0; envelope-from=divya@subvertising.org; helo=confino.investici.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list 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+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Scanner: mx11.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -1.30 X-Spam-Score: -1.30 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 9A1AE44697 X-TUID: 7vBssZ3WNVJ6 "Philip McGrath" writes: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, at 7:50 PM, Divya Ranjan wrote: > > > I think it would be appropriate if each "next" package had a code comment, or perhaps an > addendum to its package description, describing how it relates to the main packaged version. > > I think the whole "next" category is problematic. Why not just have a version number of that > package that's different from the "main" one? So instead of emacs-next have emacs-30.0.9 or > whatever. At least here the choice of arbitrariness is visible. A "next" makes no sense. > > One problem with this is that tools resolve a bare package name like "emacs" to the package with > that name with the greatest version. So if, for example, the base package is following a LTS channel, > or if there's a reason to package a pre-release version, adding "-next" to the name ensures that users > don't accidentally end up with a newer-than-recommended version. But that should be handled differently I believe. Since this only creates confusion. Can there be a way to sort of "pin" the release version to the namespace "emacs" and other versions to be emacs-x.x. Or at least remove the arbitrariness of emacs-next and keep it updated to the master like emacs-git in Arch. Regards, -- Divya Ranjan, Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.