From 0f31e4e31e1eae8c6a205dd05c1104fffb4e18a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:28:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] sys-apps/less: add note re betas

Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
---
 sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild b/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild
index 575e9a82356e9..2c90aadd3c311 100644
--- a/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/less/less-612.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
+# Releases are usually first a beta then promoted to stable if no
+# issues were found. Upstream explicitly ask "to not generally distribute"
+# the beta versions. It's okay to keyword beta versions if they fix
+# a serious bug, but otherwise try to avoid it.
+
 DESCRIPTION="Excellent text file viewer"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/${P}-beta.tar.gz"