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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: avoiding urgent stabilizations
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:36:37
Message-Id: 20110221002630.GC22774@nibiru.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: avoiding urgent stabilizations by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 * Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> schrieb:
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3 > The above suggestion sounds to me like increasing the bureaucracy and
4 > hassle of stabilizing packages even more. We already have trouble with
5 > outdated stable, especially on some archs. Do we /really/ want the
6 > reputation of competing with Debian-stal^hble for staleness?
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8 Well, I often have cases where the stable tree breaks something
9 or requires deeper manual intervention. That doesn't make fun when
10 maintaining dozens of systems. So a more-stable tree (hmm, perhaps
11 call it 'mature' ;-)) would be a big win.
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13 I could also imagine doing that on per-package basis.
14 Lets say, somehow automatically export the last time of unresolved
15 bugs per ebuild to some sane place in the portage tree (eg. some
16 new file in the per-package subdirs) so people could script up
17 something that automatically maintains package.mask ?
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20 cu
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