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| From: | "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-project@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] News item: alpha, ia64: maintainers may remove stable |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:32:15 |
| Message-Id: | 201310242332.07823.dilfridge@gentoo.org |
| 1 | ... and committed for lack of feedback. :) |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Am Sonntag, 20. Oktober 2013, 16:18:38 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: |
| 4 | > For general review and improvement, to be committed 2013-10-27... |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > #### |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Title: alpha, ia64: maintainers may remove stable versions |
| 9 | > Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> |
| 10 | > Content-Type: text/plain |
| 11 | > Posted: 2013-10-27 |
| 12 | > Revision: 1 |
| 13 | > News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
| 14 | > Display-If-Keyword: alpha |
| 15 | > Display-If-Keyword: ia64 |
| 16 | > |
| 17 | > Following discussion [1] and a vote by the Gentoo Council [2,3], |
| 18 | > on alpha and ia64 package maintainers are allowed to remove |
| 19 | > the last stable version of a package under certain circumstances |
| 20 | > (basically when it is outdated and the stablerequest for a newer |
| 21 | > version on alpha or ia64 has been pending for a while; for the |
| 22 | > details, see [2,3]). |
| 23 | > |
| 24 | > You should be aware that this may occasionally cause broken |
| 25 | > dependencies and/or require keywording of packages for stable |
| 26 | > users. Then again, things may work out fine just as well. |
| 27 | > |
| 28 | > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2975/focus=2984 |
| 29 | > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917.txt |
| 30 | > [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt |
| 31 | |
| 32 | |
| 33 | -- |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Andreas K. Huettel |
| 36 | Gentoo Linux developer |
| 37 | dilfridge@g.o |
| 38 | http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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