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> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:31:10PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: |
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> > > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some |
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> > > random php/perl library that's known to work. |
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> > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring |
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> > the arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do |
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> > you care about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on |
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> > their arch. |
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> If the pkg isn't a leaf node, you wind up keeping older and older |
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> versions lingering across multiple pkgs to keep it from breaking |
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> stable. |
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Oh no, I mean you stop filing stable requests for the arch *period*. So it |
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just means you have to keep the last stable release for that arch around. |
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> This is assuming that it's still heavily frowned upon to remove the |
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> only stable version available for a non-dead arch... |
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> ~harring |