Re: Libreoffice source disappeared

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> * For a given version X.Y.Z, the release cycle behaves like this:
>
>   * Before the release is announced, any number of X.Y.Z.N release
>     candidates may be published.  Based on what we saw just recently, as
>     new releases are added, the old ones will be removed from the main
>     download location.
>
>   * Once the release is announced, no further X.Y.Z.N release candidates
>     will be published, and the last "N" is used as the X.Y.Z release.
>
> So, the reason 5.4.7.2 replaced 5.4.7.1 when it came out is because the
> 5.4.7 release hasn't been announced yet.  Until the 5.4.7 release has
> been announced, we might see more release candidates (e.g., 5.4.7.3).

Oh, that’s counter intuitive.  I would have thought that 5.4.7.3 would
be more recent than 5.4.7, and I think that the Guix version comparator
would agree.

Does this mean we should avoid release candidates?

>>> FYI, when I asked on the LibreOffice IRC channel, they told me that old
>>> releases can be found here:
>>> 
>>> http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/5.4.7.1/src/libreoffice-5.4.7.1.tar.xz
>>> 
>>> Maybe we should add the "old" archives (and mirrors thereof, if any
>>> exist) to the list of mirrors, so that when they remove a published
>>> release, we have a chance of automatically fetching it from the "old"
>>> archives.  What do you think?
>>
>> Yes, we should add this alternate address.
>
> Actually, today they told me that the "old" location contains
> everything, even the new releases.  To simplify things, perhaps we
> should always just use the "old" location.  What do you think?

It’s fine to use both.

-- 
Ricardo