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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:35:33
Message-Id: 20100328203514.GA14855@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies by Alistair Bush
1 On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:31:10PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
2 > > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote:
3 > >
4 > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some random
5 > > php/perl library that's known to work.
6 >
7 > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring the
8 > arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do you care
9 > about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on their arch.
10
11 If they have old versions of the package stable on their arch, ignoring
12 them wouldn't be the right answer either. That makes you keep the old
13 versions around because the arch team isn't keeping up.
14
15 William