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В Сбт, 07/11/2009 в 18:24 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal пишет: |
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> * Masking beta... |
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> This masks are good if the software release is KNOWN to break previous |
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> behaviour or degrade user experience. Otherwise the software should not be |
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> masked (its TESTING for purpose, not stable). |
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God no! If we'll start to do this way we'll loose a way to test packages |
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that are supposed to go stable. It was told many times that testing |
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branch is for testing ebuilds, not for packages and if upstream |
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conciders them beta mask them. Or do you want Gentoo to have upstream |
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suggested _only for testers_ versions end in stable tree? |
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> Also the maintainer should watch if the testing branch is still relevant (why |
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> on earth we have masked 4.0.3_p20070403 version of screen when newer 4.3 is |
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> stable ;]) and remove the branch+mask when needed. |
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Yup, such things happen, but this does not mean we should stop using |
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package.mask for beta software. |
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Peter. |
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