FS#28460 - [openttd] should stick to stable releases

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Ben Woodward (Sacro) - Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 20:46 GMT
Last edited by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Thursday, 16 February 2012, 11:45 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai)
Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
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Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
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I've noticed yet again OpenTTD has been upgraded to the -beta release, that's what the AUR openttd-beta package is for, would it be possible to keep this still until the next stable release?
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Closed by  Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 11:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 21:07 GMT
Should we remove all beta and git packages from the repos ? ...
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 22:01 GMT
Keeping beta versions and development versions in AUR seems reasonable to me, except when the stable version has problems that the beta or development version fixes.
Comment by Ben Woodward (Sacro) - Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 23:04 GMT
I don't mind Laurent, however they'd be better suffixed with -beta or -git so people can choose which one they prefer. OpenTTD however can have several version running alongside each other, in separate folders.

I've written several PKGBUILDs for OpenTTD so that I can install them in parallel, having the stable release as a beta build breaks this.
Comment by Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai) - Thursday, 16 February 2012, 04:43 GMT
Yes, the main openttd package (and likewise for every other non-alpha/beta/svn/git/hg package) should absolutely stick to the release versions! Whoever upgraded this to beta should feel a tiny amount of shame now and never do it again, thanks.
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Thursday, 16 February 2012, 08:41 GMT
I usually like having packages in development versions when I can justify it but in this case it doesn't make sense. Openttd is nice enough to maintain and it has frequent releases. I don't think going alpha or beta here has any advantages. It confuses players and duplicates the AUR packages that already exist for this purpose.
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Thursday, 16 February 2012, 11:45 GMT
Mea Culpa!

Did a mistake in pushing the fourth beta in community instead of testing, even if it's really stable.
Will not make same mistake the next time.

Sorry!

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