Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:12:55
Message-Id: 20100109160023.5dcdef17@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Hi,
2
3 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>:
4
5 > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:18:19 +0100
6 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
7 > > > Didn't the Council say that if it ever happened again, there
8 > > > should be forced reverts rather than updating PMS retroactively?
9 > >
10 > > Yes, but any =bash-3.2* is still allowed:
11 > >
12 > > | Vote (6 yes, 1 no): Ebuilds must be completely parsable with
13 > > | =bash-3.2*, any use of later bash features will be reverted.
14 >
15 > Doesn't the way that's worded mean "it has to work with every single
16 > 3.2 patch", though? I take that to mean "must be completely parsable
17 > with bash-3.2_p0 through bash-3.2_p9999", not "must work with at least
18 > one version of bash-3.2_psomething".
19
20 So one has to work around obvious bugs to satisfy p0? p9999 will
21 support everything p0 has while eliminating bugs that cripple official
22 features advertised for p0.
23
24 V-Li
25
26 --
27 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
28 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
29
30 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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