Subject: Re: bug#51099: guix refresh/lint can provide false positive about updates
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:26:10 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> In Guix, we commit to offer officially released packages where
>> available/feasible.  Some projects produce release that are not
>> "stable", such as GStreamer, and our 'guix refresh' tool can't currently
>> tell the difference:
>>
>> $ guix lint gstreamer-docs
>> [...]
>> [email-masked]: can be upgraded to 1.19.2
>>
>> For GStreamer, every odd minor release version indicates a development
>> snapshot (unstable) release.
>
> Ah that’s an interesting case.  The ‘gnome’ updater checks for odd minor
> release numbers already.  But in this case, it’s the ‘generic-html’
> updater that kicks in, which is nice, except it doesn’t know about the
> odd/even scheme.
>
> So yes, we could have a property like you suggest that the
> ‘generic-html’ and ‘generic-git’ updaters (at least) would honor.

GNOME is moving away from such a versioning scheme, reflected by this 2
year old commit of mine: 5dd3acd0a0941ff9764959b313aae48095c66312
("import: gnome: Improve version handling logic.").

Thus, the use case seems to have vanished.  Let's close for now.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim