[users] Re: package update request: rdiff-backup

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Dag Wieers wrote:

>> The latest rdiff-backup version in the rpmforge yum repo for EL5 is  
>> 1.0.5. I
>> see later versions at http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rdiff-backup/ 
>>  but
>> they all have 'test' in the filename.
>
> Correct. The newer versions are from the development branch and  
> therefor I
> do not consider them stable. They might be, but as long as the  
> developers
> themselves consider it a development branch, why should I as a  
> packager
> doubt them ? :)
>
> 	http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
>
> So if you would like a new stable release, I suggest you take this  
> up with
> the developers.
>
> Tagging them as 'test' instead of 'rf' is for me a simple way to  
> make them
> available but not from the repository.

Ok, right. Well, 1.0.5 is working just fine for us, so I won't bother  
upgrading then.

Nils.