В Сбт, 07/11/2009 в 18:24 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal пишет:
> * Masking beta...
> This masks are good if the software release is KNOWN to break previous 
> behaviour or degrade user experience. Otherwise the software should not be 
> masked (its TESTING for purpose, not stable).

God no! If we'll start to do this way we'll loose a way to test packages
that are supposed to go stable. It was told many times that testing
branch is for testing ebuilds, not for packages and if upstream
conciders them beta mask them. Or do you want Gentoo to have upstream
suggested _only for testers_ versions end in stable tree?

> Also the maintainer should watch if the testing branch is still relevant (why 
> on earth we have masked 4.0.3_p20070403 version of screen when newer 4.3 is 
> stable ;]) and remove the branch+mask when needed.

Yup, such things happen, but this does not mean we should stop using
package.mask for beta software.

-- 
Peter.