Troy Engel wrote: > > I'm specifically concerned about the choice to release betas of > freerdp into mainline and was trying to find out what the policy was > and when it was deemed OK to release betas. (as with grub). I am not > finding the reason for a freerdp upgrade documented to use the betas, > a lot of us use this tool for work and can't afford to deal with the > hits of beta software in a critical utility. > > thx, > -te > > [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190317 > [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42890 There are usually very specific reasons why beta packages are pushed to the repos. For instance krecipes and krusader haven't seen a stable release for 5+ years and Sourceforge lists the betas as default download for both projects. As for freerdp, you can see the reason here [1]. The upstream bug that is referenced in your second link mentions that krdc should be patched in distributions that ship freerdp>1.1, so a feature request should be filed against krdc in the bug tracker. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/freerdp-bump/
