Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization commits and atomicity

[hasufell]

On 10/19/2015 07:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:40 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
>> On 10/19/2015 07:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>
>>> However, stabilizing a single package really is an impactful change.
>>> The fact that you're doing 100 of them at one time doesn't really
>>> diminish the impact of each one.  Any of them could break a system or
>>> need to be reverted.
>>>
>>
>> Since when do we allow reverting stabilization? The package needs to be
>> fixed and possibly revbumped instead.
>>
>
> It would really depend on the nature of the break.  If it is a serious
> upstream problem and no fix is available, then reverting might be the
> only practical solution.  It is of course not a preferred solution.
>

I don't think we depend on 'git revert' in that case. KEYWORDS are
trivial changes (in terms of file diffs).