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Re: Best practice: 0.5.999 as beta revision (Gummi)



On 2011-10-30 19:59 +0100, Daniel Stender wrote:

> The developer's have marked the current beta of Gummi 0.6 (split-panel
> LaTeX editor) as 0.5.999, though not officially presented but
> available as svn snapshots.
>
> Question: Me as maintainer I would like to support the development of
> Gummi, wouldn't it be a good idea to just pick the latest svn revision
> and pack it to put it into Debian right now, or would it be a better
> idea to just wait until at least 0.6 is ready?

Considering the warning on the gummi homepage that "this release is NOT
suited for production use", you should probably not upload the beta
versions to unstable.  Shipping it in experimental is certainly fine.

Cheers,
       Sven


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