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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:06:01
Message-Id: 1290344729.11068.98.camel@tablet
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow by Ryan Hill
1 В Вск, 21/11/2010 в 01:47 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет:
2 > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:35:18 +1300
3 > Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > > > We don't do revbumps on masked toolchain packages.
6 > > >
7 > > > Why not?
8 > >
9 > > Yeah why not? do you inform users of this?
10 >
11 > Users unmasking toolchain packages need to be paying close attention to
12 > what's going on behind the scenes. They're in the tree for people who
13 > know what they're doing to test. Even unmasked, toolchain revbumps are
14 > expensive and we do them only when absolutely necessary.
15
16 I don't see any reasons not to revbump package even if it was
17 hardmasked...
18
19 --
20 Peter.