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On 10/11/11 05:36, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> 3) Maintainers (and upstreams) are not always responsive. The bug |
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> was opened in February and wasn't really worked on until recently. |
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It is a bit of surprise all this talking for a bug that went |
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unattended for 9 months isn't it? O:) It is like people want open bugs |
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and rotten packages around :). |
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> When you are making a treewide change like a lib upgrade you do |
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> have a to pick a point where 'enough' people have upgraded and you |
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> just break (or mask in this case) everything else. If the folks |
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> want the package in the tree they can fix it; thats the whole point |
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> of masking (providing a notification and a fix-it interval.) |
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This is why the packages is masked now. But of course people don't |
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bother reading masking messages and they think that masking == removal. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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