Re: Switch fork, version going backward

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 09:13:26PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Ideally, upstream would make releases, but you report they aren't.
>   - Do they advise that people just run the tip of master?

I was advised switching to flowerysong/OpenARC

>   - The latest tag is 1.0.0Beta3; I don't see 20180921.

pkgsrc has openarc-20180921 from
https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenARC

Same project also has 1.0.0Beta3 released 2019-08-22.

rttps://github.com/flowerysong/OpenARC has 1.3.0, released "last month".

>   - What does upstream say about flowerysong?

Upstream suggested I should use it.

>   - What do you think about upstream.  Is it "they don't like releases"
>     or "nobody is there and it's abandoned"?

It does not seems very fond of reelases. 1.0.0beta3 is 6 years old.

>   If flowerysong is a good thing for some users to run, perhaps
>   openarc-flowerysong with flowerysong's numbers, as a different
>   package, and people can run it if they want.

Right, will do that.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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