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Re: Bug#658415: [BTS#658415] templates://golang-weekly/{golang-weekly-tools.templates} : Final update for English review



Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 13:11, Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>> By the way, why is this a separate source package instead of being
>>> called golang in experimental?
>>
>> Or to put it another way, if the upstream versions of the last three
>> golang-weekly releases are 2011.09.07, 2011.09.21, and 2012.01.27, why
>> is it called -weekly?
>
> Because upstream do weekly releases, but I upload -weekly release when
> I have a time.

That answers JBR's question, but not mine. ;-)  Do -weekly releases
have some features enabled that are disabled in the stable releases?

(For comparison, gcc-snapshot and gcc-<version> are basically the same
codebase with the same configuration options.  They are distinct
packages to allow installing them at the same time.)


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