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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 22:39:36
Message-Id: 5248AC44.3080806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps by hasufell
1 On 09/29/2013 11:41 PM, hasufell wrote:
2 > It seems this happens more frequently these days, so I'd like to
3 > remind people to check stable reverse deps before stabilizing a
4 > library, especially when this is a non-maintainer stablereq.
5 >
6 > Arch teams do not test them, so this is the business of the maintainer
7 > or the dev who requested stabilization.
8
9 Huh. This must be new. When I was still arch-testing, reverse deps
10 were checked. app-portage/tatt (which is sort of maintainer-needed now)
11 has support for these tests too.
12
13 Cheers,
14 Thomas
15
16 --
17 Thomas Kahle

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Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>