On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On 2015/07/18 17:16, Brad Smith wrote:
>> On 07/18/15 17:04, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
>> >viq <vic...@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >>>>Maybe it would make sense then to have both 0.6 and 0.7 in the tree?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>3 lines up from that..
>> >>>
>> >>>The current stable release is 0.6.26, released May 6, 2015.
>> >>
>> >>Yes, and right below that it says:
>> >>The 0.6 series is in the process of being deprecated and the 0.6.26
>> >>release is the last release of the series that will receive new
>> >>additions or enhancements.
>> >>
>> >>0.6 is becoming deprecated. 0.6 doesn't support a backend I'd like to
>> >>use, 0.7 does. We have in ports postfix stable and snapshot. Maybe it
>> >>would make sense to have the same for duplicity then?
>> >
>> >If some people really need the devel version I don't see a reason not to
>> >do it.
>>
>> The rule of thumb we use for the ports tree is use releases and stable ones
>> at that. That is the reason 99%+ of the ports tree use such releases.
>
> Supplying multiple versions of a port which is a dependency of other
> ports adds some problems, it's not too bad here because it's a rundep
> only, but deja-dup uses this, so that would want to be handled one
> way or another.

Maybe make deja-dup depend on >=0.6<0.7 ? And duply if/when imported
could depend on >=0.7

> Anyone know upstream's timescale on naming 0.7 stable?

I tried looking but haven't found anything yet.

-- 
viq

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