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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:43:34
Message-Id: 52491D50.5010006@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps by hasufell
1 30.09.2013 01:41, hasufell пишет:
2 > Arch teams do not test them, so this is the business of the maintainer
3 > or the dev who requested stabilization.
4 >
5
6 I hope you are kidding, cause when i was joining to arch teams, i was
7 taught to test reverse dependencies of libraries.
8
9 Of course, maintainer should test this also when bringing new version to
10 tree to prevent breakages. But stabilizing is different story and those
11 who putting apropriate version to stable should be 100% sure that it
12 would not break revdeps.
13
14 --
15 Best regards, Sergey Popov
16 Gentoo developer
17 Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
18 Gentoo Qt project lead
19 Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead

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