[Slackbuilds-users] Tracking version releases

Christoph Willing chris.willing at iinet.net.au
Sat May 13 02:25:16 UTC 2017


On 13/05/17 12:01, Kyle Guinn wrote:
> On 5/12/17, Christoph Willing <chris.willing at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 12/05/17 19:05, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>>>> No I hadn't seen that. It looks pretty good - despite a few odd little
>>>> things e.g. live555 versioning string incorrectly makes it think a
>>>> version from 2014 is the latest.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm what to do?
>>>
>>> There's nothing we can do except that we had to check for upstream.
>>> Different distribution have different naming rules.
>>>
>>
>> Actually I was wondering what to do about continuing my own little
>> project since the repology site is so good apart from minor
>> inconsistencies (like live555 reports).
>>
>> As for live555 naming conventions, all the distros mentioned at repology
>> as packaging live555 (https://repology.org/metapackage/live555/versions)
>> use the same convention that we and upstream use for live555. Only one
>> distro (ALT Sisyphus) uses the convention that repology seems to favour.
> 
> Click the "Report" button on that page and explain the problem.
> Dmitry is pretty responsive about fixing versioning and package naming
> inconsistencies.
> 

Thanks, I've done that now.

chris


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