On sob, 2015-07-18 at 23:17 +0100, Stuart Henderson 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.
> 
> Anyone know upstream's timescale on naming 0.7 stable?
> 

Doesn't seem they know yet - https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dupl
icity-talk/2015-08/msg00038.html 
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