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  1. Bug #403212
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Comment 15 for bug 403212

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Cesare Falco (c.falco) wrote : Re: [upgrade] sdlmame new upstream release 0.134

Hello Fabrice,

and thanks for your help.

1. I agree, the watch file should not track "u"nstable releases. I'll put it very high in my to-do list. :)

2. No, 0.133 and 0.134 are so called "stable" (major) releases. Mame developers agreed to a tight development cycle, with each release planned in about 6 weeks, during which a weekly "u" (unstable) update is released. Unstable releases may include major code refactoring or simply support for new games, but they are not guarantee to work for all users (as an example, I can remember a couple of builds which broke sound on my box). No major releases are done until regression tests are passed or nearly so, so I consider them reliable enough for the repository.

So we have to stick with 0.132 for Karmic, as 0.133 has not been uploaded before FF and is still in the queue.

On user demand, I run a site with unofficial packages for each intermediate build at http://sdlmame.wallyweek.org, in a very similar way WineHQ works.

Hope this helps,
Cesare.