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Thus spake Chris Gianelloni on Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:28:18AM CDT |
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> *Everything* that isn't in package.mask should be "stable" as far as |
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> functionality is concerned. The testing branch is for testing ebuilds, |
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> not packages. Broken packages shouldn't be in the tree, or should only |
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> be in the tree under package.mask, where it won't affect innocent users |
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> that just want their systems to work. |
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I thing this misses the meanings of "stable" and "unstable" as I learned them |
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when I ran Debian on just about every box I have. My understanding was that |
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"stable" meant that a package was effectively nailed down to the distribution |
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version and wouldn't change until the distribution version changed, the |
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exception being security fixes. "unstable" meant that a package was subject to |
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change, pursuant to becoming stable with respect to the distribution. |
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"Unstable" didn't mean functionally "broken", just that the package was subject |
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to change. |
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Gentoo's release model is rather different from Debian's, so these terms kind |
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of lose there meaning. By this definition, every Gentoo package is "unstable". |
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