I quite like the nginx naming - stable and mainline. Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him)
My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours. > On 30. 11. 2021, at 16:10, Petr Menšík <pemen...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hello BIND users, > > I would like to add a new package of recent BIND9 development release to > Fedora [1] distribution. Current "bind" package contains build of stable > branch 9.16.x release. I think it would be good to keep stable releases > available in Fedora. We still use just bind without 9 suffix. > Theoretically another "bind9" could contain more recent releases. But I > would like to reserve it for current bind package. > > One alternative would be using major version in package name. But I > think one the latest stable release one the latest development releases > would be always enough. bind package should be updated when 9.18.0 is > released. I think development package should follow and upgrade to > 9.19.0 as soon as possible. I would prefer single development package > rolling with major development releases. > > COPR repository of ISC uses "bind9-dev" name. Would you recommend that > name? I kind of like it. Slight disadvantage of this name is similarity > with development headers subpackage, which uses common suffix "-devel" > on Fedora. Development headers are still needed by bind-dyndb-ldap > plugin. It uses bind-devel package now, similar alternative of > development release would be "bind9-dev-devel". It does look like strange. > > Would you help me with a better proposal? What do you think about it? I > don't expect development releases to ever reach Red Hat Enterprise Linux > directly, but it might be build as Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux > with community support. > > I don't want to support installation of both stable and development > packages on single system. It would conflict and only one would have to > be choosen. > > Is there any distribution offering already two releases at the same > time? Would you have some idea, how should it be called? Do you like > "bind9-dev" base name? > > Regards, > Petr > > 1. https://getfedora.org > > -- > Petr Menšík > Software Engineer > Red Hat, http://www.redhat.com/ > email: pemen...@redhat.com > PGP: DFCF908DB7C87E8E529925BC4931CA5B6C9FC5CB > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
