Bug#720108: Please upload 0.3.3 to unstable

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Thu Aug 22 18:13:50 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:40:27AM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Boris Pek <tehnick-8 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> >>>  At this point, I see 4 options:
> >>>
> >>>  1) status quo - leave supertux 0.1.x in sid, and supertux 0.3.x in experimental
> >>>  2) only ship development version - upload supertux 0.3.x to unstable
> >>>  3) offer both versions, defaulting to development version when user
> >>>  runs apt-get install supertux (current option used in Ubuntu) -
> >>>  src:supertux-stable offering 0.1.x, src:supertux offering 0.3.x
> >>>  4) offer both versions, defaulting to stable version when user runs
> >>>  apt-get install supertux - src:supertux offering 0.1.x,
> >>>  src:supertux-experimental or src:supertux2 offering 0.3.x
> >>
> >> Personally, I'd argue for 2, or failing that 3.
> >
> > +1
> >
> 
> Ok, so we do have some sort of consensus going now...
> 
> I was in favour of 3, but I suppose there's no real reason to be
> shipping both 0.1.x and 0.3.x side-by-side other than the fact that
> upstream labels 0.1.x as the stable branch, so 2 is fine by me as
> well. My experience with supertux 0.3.x has so far been pretty stable,
> but anectodal evidence probably isn't worth that much anyways.
> 
> However, as long as Christoph objects to it (e.g. [1]), I won't be
> deviating from the status quo.

The nice thing about option 2 is that you can trivially switch to option
3 by uploading a supertux-1.x package.

- Josh Triplett



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