On 20 April 2015 at 16:43, Brian Monroe <briancmonroe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have 2.18.2 I'm guessing that since you're in an "Unstable development > version" of Fedora, the packager decided to use the dev versions for > testing, bug reporting and such. > Fedora 22 repo is separate from the Fedora 21 repo, and I think it's > probably good to have dev versions in our dev releases. > > > Just my opinion and best guess. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:55 AM Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I am giving Fedora 22 (alpha release) a try - just curiosity. >> It seems it currently has lilypond-2.19.18 in updates-testing. >> >> I am not sure having "unstable development versions" in official >> distributions >> repo is a good idea, is it? >> It is a good idea. A few things to note: 1. Fedora 22 *alpha* is the next version of Fedora as Brian Monroe points out. It's not an official release. It's not even the current Fedora 22, fedora beta has been through maybe a month of test composes and release candidates and is out today. 2. 'Unstable development' means undergoing current development, it doesn't mean actively unstable. Lilypond appears to use a model which ticks between 'unstable' versions (odd minor numbers) and 'stable' versions, where nothing changes much and only bug fixes go in (even minor numbers), like the old kernel development model. 2.19 has been going for a while and the packagers may be aware the upstream is closing on finalising it as a 2.20, you can see the history of changes to the package at: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/lilypond.git/log/?h=f22 and current versions at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/lilypond 3. Fedora as a 'cutting edge' distro will often package the latest version of software. This is how people get to try out new features. If lilypond have tagged it with a release number they consider it usable. Contacts for the packagers can be seen at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/lilypond/ -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
