[Koha-devel] A note about the squeeze-dev repo

[Robin Sheat]

Galen Charlton schreef op di 15-04-2014 om 10:15 [-0700]:
> I'd like to tack on a semi-related (or possibly not at all related)
> question.  Should we consider adopting a different set of code
> names/suites for our APT repository?  For example:

My answer here is "yes, but..."

> testing
> stable
> oldstable
> (maybe) reallyoldstable

We probably need to deprecate the squeeze* names, however they do serve
a potential purpose. That is, if we need to build a different version
for different OSes, then we can. However, I don't think this is likely,
and we'd be better off actively avoiding that being a thing we need to
do. Given this, I'd lean towards the names you list above.

I think I can actually make this happen just by setting up some symlinks
in the repo.

> or perhaps go by version number (modified as needed to confirm with
> any toolchain expectations about the format of the suite name)?
> 
> 3.16.x
> 3.14.x
> etc.

I've thought about this, and I don't like it. The main reason is that if
people just want to regularly update to be either more bleeding edge or
a bit more conservative, they can track squeeze or oldstable
respectively. If the distribution names are version numbers, then
there's no seamless upgrade path when a version is retired.

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