<div dir="ltr">The reason is that I distribute many stable and unstable packages through 2 <a href="https://gitlab.com/jean-christophe-manciot/ppa">PPA</a> channels. <div>I would be rather strange to publish an unstable release without its preceding stable version </div><div>Also, in the case of aptitude, I try to publish only stable versions because it's too much work to publish all unstable releases of all packages.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Axel Beckert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abe@debian.org" target="_blank">abe@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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jean-christophe manciot wrote:<br>
> Do you mean by "build from the HEAD" that the bug has been fixed after<br>
> 0.8.5 tag on the master branch?<br>
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</span>Yes.<br>
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> In which case the unstable commit would be more stable than the<br>
> stable tag commit.<br>
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</span>Speaking of git history, yes. It's not meant to happen, but it happens<br>
occasionally.<br>
<br>
As mentioned before, the patch has been applied in the published<br>
Debian package as used by Debian, Ubuntu and other derivatives.<br>
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> I suggest to tag a new stable version when all this is stabilized.<br>
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</span>I must admit, I'm suprised that anyone uses aptitude from Git and does<br>
not use Git HEAD then (like us developers).<br>
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        Regards, Axel<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jean-Christophe</div>
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