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  • Should alpha|beta|rc releases be watched by uscan?

    From Gunnar Hjalmarsson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 18:20:01 2023
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    Hi!

    There seems to be a generic watch file for multiple GNOME projects
    (attached). That file does not make uscan see alpha|beta|rc releases.

    Would it be desirable to watch also such releases?

    Changing this:

    [\d.]+/@PACKAGE@-([\d.]+)@ARCHIVE_EXT@

    to:

    [\d.]+/@PACKAGE@-(\d+\.?(?:alpha|beta|rc)?[\d.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@

    would make uscan see everything. Or possibly a compromise would be
    better. Only rc? Or rc and beta?

    --
    Rgds,
    Gunnar
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?=@21:1/5 to gunnarhj@debian.org on Wed Mar 15 14:30:01 2023
    On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:11 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@debian.org> wrote:
    There seems to be a generic watch file for multiple GNOME projects (attached). That file does not make uscan see alpha|beta|rc releases.

    Would it be desirable to watch also such releases?
    …
    would make uscan see everything. Or possibly a compromise would be
    better. Only rc? Or rc and beta?

    I think the Debian GNOME team is in agreement that watching for alpha
    releases isn't very helpful since we don't generally package those but
    we do package stable point releases that are released later than the
    alphas.

    Watching for rc releases seems useful since there aren't many changes
    from rc to the .0 release. Any bugs identified then and reported might
    be fixed in time for .0 and benefit everyone instead of waiting
    several weeks until a .1 release.

    That leaves beta. Last year, we did package the beta releases and
    often even pushed them to Unstable. I support making the watch files
    more usable to maintainers and I think watching for beta releases is
    more useful than not.

    Thank you,
    Jeremy Bícha

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  • From Gunnar Hjalmarsson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 19 15:10:02 2023
    On 2023-03-15 14:24, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
    Watching for rc releases seems useful since there aren't many
    changes from rc to the .0 release. Any bugs identified then and
    reported might be fixed in time for .0 and benefit everyone instead
    of waiting several weeks until a .1 release.

    That leaves beta. Last year, we did package the beta releases and
    often even pushed them to Unstable. I support making the watch files
    more usable to maintainers and I think watching for beta releases is
    more useful than not.

    +1 for watching also rc and beta.

    --
    Gunnar

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?=@21:1/5 to gunnarhj@debian.org on Fri Jul 7 16:00:01 2023
    On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:03 AM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@debian.org> wrote:

    On 2023-03-15 14:24, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
    Watching for rc releases seems useful since there aren't many
    changes from rc to the .0 release. Any bugs identified then and
    reported might be fixed in time for .0 and benefit everyone instead
    of waiting several weeks until a .1 release.

    That leaves beta. Last year, we did package the beta releases and
    often even pushed them to Unstable. I support making the watch files
    more usable to maintainers and I think watching for beta releases is
    more useful than not.

    +1 for watching also rc and beta.

    Let's go ahead and update our watch files to check for beta or rc (but
    not alpha) releases for GNOME 45 Beta

    Thank you,
    Jeremy Bícha

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