On 8/11/24 11:49 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
Of your two packages, only one of them was truly a development release: gtk4 at 4.15.4. The libgda 6.0.0 release was not an "unstable" version, but in fact a new stable release series.
That's weird, I was looking at their website [0] which I guess wasn't updated. What further threw me off was Arch and Void shipping the 5.x series still [1].
I also want to take issue with the idea that we would only ship "stable" releases as if that fixes everything. It doesn't really. Sometimes a package goes years without a "stable release" and we *do* need to ship so-called "development" or "unstable" releases so things work at all.
Wouldn't it be better if the package maintainer patched the stable version or dropped the package from the repos if upstream is not maintaining or updating it? [0]: https://www.gnome-db.org/Roadmap [1]: https://pkgs.org/download/libgda Pavin.