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From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:45:17
Message-Id: 20070317074207.GA7043@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions by Mike Frysinger
1 On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:24:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 16 March 2007, Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog) wrote:
3 > > Just a note to this. I'm co-maintainer of netbeans ebuild. Netbeans does
4 > > milestone releases. These are pretty stable and usable since milestone 7
5 > > of netbeans 6.0 with many new features that make sense to use the
6 > > milestone releases. I have to name the ebuilds netbeans-6.0_alpha7 etc.
7 > > though I was assured by mkt guy from Sun it is not yet alpha quality. It
8 > > would be fair to the upstream and to users to not use _alpha because it
9 > > is not alpha but there's no appropriate choice available.
10 >
11 > i would use _p# over _alpha#
12
13 6.0_p7 is considered a higher version than 6.0, right? That will probably
14 cause problems in the future. _pre# may be a good choice, though.