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Re: Libreoffice source disappeared
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: Libreoffice source disappeared |
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Mon, 21 May 2018 13:18:25 -0400 |
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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:13:56AM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> * For a given version X.Y.Z, the release cycle behaves like this:
>
> * Before the release is announced, any number of X.Y.Z.N release
> candidates may be published. Based on what we saw just recently, as
> new releases are added, the old ones will be removed from the main
> download location.
>
> * Once the release is announced, no further X.Y.Z.N release candidates
> will be published, and the last "N" is used as the X.Y.Z release.
>
> So, the reason 5.4.7.2 replaced 5.4.7.1 when it came out is because the
> 5.4.7 release hasn't been announced yet. Until the 5.4.7 release has
> been announced, we might see more release candidates (e.g., 5.4.7.3).
Okay, who could have guessed? ;)
Generally, we don't package release candidates, so let's add a comment
in the LibreOffice package definition to avoid doing this again.
> OK. Since LibreOffice officially supports both 5 and 6, we could also
> choose to offer both 5 and 6 if the maintenance burden isn't too high.
> I do not plan to add this myself (but I might - you never know), so
> anyone who is interested should feel free to try adding LibreOffice 6.
The maintenance burden would mostly consist of waiting for the loooooong
LibreOffice compilation to finish.
> Actually, today they told me that the "old" location contains
> everything, even the new releases. To simplify things, perhaps we
> should always just use the "old" location. What do you think?
Yeah, let's just use "old" and add a code comment explaining it.
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