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Re: Glibc release check-list
On Sunday 15 of November 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Should the ports maintainers have a pow-wow to decide who gets to do
> the honours and when?
>
> I think that ports releases should be done in sync with glibc. Users
> will become immensly confused if you have glibc-ports-2.42 that is to
> be used with glibc 2.11.
>
Users won't be confused if you use glibc-ports-2.11-x.y where x.y is ports
version and 2.11 is for which glibc is that ports package. This will allow
more frequent releases than glibc if needed.
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