Re: iptables 1.4.0.77, Xtables-addons 1.5.4.1

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2008-04-28 13:20, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>
>   
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>     
>>> I have uploaded an (unofficial) tarball of the current (official) HEAD from
>>> the SCM up to http://dev.medozas.de/files/xtables/iptables-1.4.0.77.tar.bz2
>>> (+ .asc). The version number is derived from git-describe telling me it has
>>> been 77 commits since the last tag (Dec 22 2007), and it should not interfere
>>> with any official release numbering plans.
>>>       
>> People have SVN snapshots from the Netfilter FTP?
>> Why do we need this sort of unnofficial release?
>>     
>
> I did not know (or rather, forgotten) that automatic tarballs were
> created. People do not seem to use these (but perhaps `svn co`),
> otherwise they would have probably noticed before me now that they
> are currently generated incorrectly.
>
> I predict that the _majority_ of users do not run any snapshot. And
> they probably would not run a snapshot because they are not
> interested, or because their distro does not package it — and there
> is nothing wrong with that.
>
> By giving a specific snapshot the explicit "tarball blessing" which
> implies it was tested more than the usual autogenerated snapshot, it
> will — hopefully — give reason to actually use it on a regular basis.
>   

I would prefer if you would avoid creating confusion by creating
unofficial tarballs with official sounding names and versioning.

Its time for a -rc though, I agree.