[pkg-wine-party] Packaging of 1.0 and 1.1

Shachar Shemesh shachar at debian.org
Wed Jun 18 15:12:48 UTC 2008


Ove Kaaven wrote:
> OK, now that Wine 1.0 has been released and Wine has actually gotten a 
> "stable" development branch, it's soon time to decide on how to deal 
> with two separate lines of development. There are several approaches...
>
> 1) only package stable releases, only 1.0.* until 1.1 is declared stable
> 2) only package unstable releases
> 3) rename the 1.0 packages to wine-stable, libwine-stable, etc, and let 
> the current names refer to unstable releases
> 4) rename the 1.0 packages to wine1.0, libwine1.0, etc, and let the 
> current names refer to unstable
> 5) let the current names refer to 1.0, and create wine1.1-bin packages
> 6) let the current names refer to stable, and create wine-unstable packages
> 7) rename the 1.0 packages to wine1.0, and create wine1.1 etc, and let 
> the current names become transition packages to one of these
>
> or whatever else. Hard to choose.
>
> Suggestions?
>   
I'd go with 6, myself. The idea being that the steady state is what we 
aim for.

Just my 2c.

Shachar
P.s.
won't be around for the coming week. Getting married. Will try to start 
looking at what needs to be done when I'm back.



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