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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.

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/


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