[tur-users] Unstable (AKA -{svn, cvs, devel}) packages in [community] ?

[Callan Barrett]

On 4/15/07, Phil Dillon-Thiselton <dibblethewrecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I must have missed that.  Based on what the XFCE devs have said
> themselves the SVN pkgs will be next to useless for sometime.  They
> served their purpose until the 4.4 release, I don't see the point of
> keeping them around.

I see no reason for just dumping every xfce-svn package simply because
Xfce 4.4 has been released, they still serve the exact same purpose as
the did before the release just at a lowered demand now. I don't see
the point of removing them from all repos until someone wants them
back again when I'm perfectly happy with maintaining them myself.

> I'm generally against putting pkgs like this in [community] though.
> They should be easy enough to build from the PKGBUILDs for the people
> that really want them.  I think these pkgs epitomize what the AUR is
> all about.

I've never had a drive to add a development version of a package to
[community] but I've never been against it either. If people want
(that is more than one or two) one of these packages added to
[community] I don't see why they shouldn't be. Does it state somewhere
that the community repo is not for development versions of packages?

> I think the reason why pkgs like gaim-svn (shortly to become
> pidgin-monotone or whatever) and xfce-svn were so popular was because
> they _had_ such slow release cycles.  XFCE has finally been released
> and we now understand the delays with gaim.  I'll stop using the SCM
> versions of these pkgs the second they make their big releases and I
> bet there is a big majority that would do the same.

That may be true but don't you think it's fair to say that the
popularity of these packages will pick back up as the time it takes
for a package to update upstream goes by? I think this is especially
true in packages with as large a delay as the ones you mentioned.

> Having said all that i think opera-devel might actually be a fair
> candidate for [community].

Agreed. I think Opera has some great stuff in the weekly snapshots
regular users miss out on, I always use opera-devel over the regular
opera package because of this. Is someone willing to maintain it?

-- 
Callan Barrett