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authorUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2015-05-03 19:08:15 +0200
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2015-05-03 19:08:15 +0200
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parentMerge remarks about revision bumps from Developer Handbook. (diff)
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Merge sentence about 9999 naming policy from Developer Handbook.
This is taken from proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-ebuild.xml, section "Ebuild policy", subsection "CVS sources policy". Original author: hwoarang
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@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ an upcoming version, usually used when a release is anticipated but not out yet.
is $(upcoming-version)_preYYYYMMDD.
</p>
+<p>
+The policy for so-called <e>live</e> ebuilds
+(see <uri link="::ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/#src_unpack-actions"/>)
+is to use <c>9999</c> as the version (or as the last version component).
+</p>
+
</body>
</section>