[FROG] Difference between releases

[Martin Winter]

On 19 Jan 2019, at 8:50, Antoine Joubert via frog wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this has been asked before, but I was wondering, what is the 
> difference between the 
> https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/frr-6.0.2 release and 
> the https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/debian%2Ffrr-6.0.2-1 
> release ?
>
> The debian package provided for the first one seems to be the 6.0.2-0 
> version. Is the second one newer ? If so, why are there no package 
> download available ?

In general, approximately no difference.

The frr-6.0.2 is the current latest official FRR release.

The Debian one is part of the work to get FRR into the debian 
distribution and should follow the official release.
In practice however, debian maintainers and debian packages are 
frequently with some changes/patches in comparison to
official releases on any package.
In the case of FRR, we try to avoid any changes as far as possible, but 
as part of the testing and getting FRR
into debian, there is a good chance for a few changes in the near term 
(which would then be integrated into
further FRR releases whenever possible).

Not sure if this explains it, but in general:
- Use our official releases (which has packages on GitHub) until the FRR 
release is part
   of the debian packages.
- Once we have them in there (you’ll hear an announcement), then we 
may stop providing
   debian packages ourself and you would get packages from the debian 
package archives.
- Ignore the differences. If there would be anything important, then we 
would make a new
   version anyway.

Hope this explains it somehow

Regards,
    Martin Winter