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Stable PPA without daily versions
qBittorrent version and Operating System
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If on linux, libtorrent and Qt version
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What is the problem
The PPA provided for debian-like systems gets updated every day, often multiple times per day. While I understand the reasoning for qbittorrent-unstable I don't believe qbittorrent-stable should follow the same approach.
What is the expected behavior
Updates should follow GitHub (or similar) releases and not follow master branch or a cron schedule.
Stable release with dates like so 4.1.5.99~201904170702-6696-4253515~ubuntu18.04.1 are not really helpful.
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Why though... ? Are you bothered by the numbers? Do numbers scare you?
Numbers imply daily builds, daily builds imply instability.
If something changes between the builds it means the version being built is not a stable release, if no change is happening it means the new build is useless. In both cases apt-get reports a new version and this means every 12 hours or more a new update.
I don't believe this is the definition of a stable release. In addition old ones get deleted as far as I can see, which means I cannot do reproducible docker images, for instance, without building from source or downloading from Debian testing/newer Ubuntu distro packages.
It's not a bad thing, it's a good thing, as you are getting more frequent improvements that are stable.
We have changed mentality towards stable releases. They usually don't have backported every single commit made in the master branch. They commits are seldom and fix-only more-or-less. Hence, low traffic in the stable PPA. And under this mentality it is better to get the fixes as soon as they appear because --usually- they are important.
