On Monday 2008-04-28 13:20, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> I have uploaded an (unofficial) tarball of the current (official) HEAD from >> the SCM up to http://dev.medozas.de/files/xtables/iptables-1.4.0.77.tar.bz2 >> (+ .asc). The version number is derived from git-describe telling me it has >> been 77 commits since the last tag (Dec 22 2007), and it should not interfere >> with any official release numbering plans. > > People have SVN snapshots from the Netfilter FTP? > Why do we need this sort of unnofficial release? I did not know (or rather, forgotten) that automatic tarballs were created. People do not seem to use these (but perhaps `svn co`), otherwise they would have probably noticed before me now that they are currently generated incorrectly. I predict that the _majority_ of users do not run any snapshot. And they probably would not run a snapshot because they are not interested, or because their distro does not package it — and there is nothing wrong with that. By giving a specific snapshot the explicit "tarball blessing" which implies it was tested more than the usual autogenerated snapshot, it will — hopefully — give reason to actually use it on a regular basis. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
