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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:22:32
Message-Id: 5249A574.6060603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On 09/30/2013 07:45 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > hasufell schrieb:
3 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464536
4 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470554
5 >>
6 >> for the first bug:
7 >> net-libs/ortp media-libs/mediastreamer and net-voip/linphone
8 >> are from the same upstream and actually have to be bumped and
9 >> stabilized TOGETHER, because it is very likely that they break
10 >> otherwise. And that's exactly what happened. The maintainer was
11 >> probably aware of it, but didn't respond, so arch testers went ahead
12 >> and did not test reverse deps.
13 >
14 > I already replied in the second bug but let me reiterate again. What I
15 > wrote in October 2012 to this list[1] is basically still true.
16 >
17 > Following retirements, there is nobody in voip team who is interested in
18 > these packages any more. Nobody in voip requested that these packages go
19 > stable. When I read bugzilla reports that version bumps (typically done
20 > as drive-by commits by outside developers) break consumers, then I
21 > sometimes update the dependencies to account for that. When I saw the
22 > second stabilization bug, I added the blocker, but the stabilization
23 > proceeded anyway due to technical issues with the robo-stable scripts.
24 >
25
26 > due to technical issues with the robo-stable scripts.
27
28 > due to technical issues with the robo-stable scripts.
29
30
31 let me summarize my response as "WAT"
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34 Maybe we should just have a cronjob that just does all that automatically?

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