On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:13:56AM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > * For a given version X.Y.Z, the release cycle behaves like this: > > * Before the release is announced, any number of X.Y.Z.N release > candidates may be published. Based on what we saw just recently, as > new releases are added, the old ones will be removed from the main > download location. > > * Once the release is announced, no further X.Y.Z.N release candidates > will be published, and the last "N" is used as the X.Y.Z release. > > So, the reason 5.4.7.2 replaced 5.4.7.1 when it came out is because the > 5.4.7 release hasn't been announced yet. Until the 5.4.7 release has > been announced, we might see more release candidates (e.g., 5.4.7.3).
Okay, who could have guessed? ;) Generally, we don't package release candidates, so let's add a comment in the LibreOffice package definition to avoid doing this again. > OK. Since LibreOffice officially supports both 5 and 6, we could also > choose to offer both 5 and 6 if the maintenance burden isn't too high. > I do not plan to add this myself (but I might - you never know), so > anyone who is interested should feel free to try adding LibreOffice 6. The maintenance burden would mostly consist of waiting for the loooooong LibreOffice compilation to finish. > Actually, today they told me that the "old" location contains > everything, even the new releases. To simplify things, perhaps we > should always just use the "old" location. What do you think? Yeah, let's just use "old" and add a code comment explaining it.
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