Re: [gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?

[Lares Moreau]

Bug 116811 :)
[insecure] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116811
[secure] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116811

Getting fixed. 

On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 21:41 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:36:44 +0100 Matthias Bethke
> <matthias@×××××××.de> wrote:
> | After finishing my latest sync, portage moaned about problems with my
> | world file. emaint found out it was due to some package updates that
> | deleted the versions I have installed and left only unstable ones.
> | In particular, it was dev-tex/latex-beamer and its dependencies, pgf
> | and xcolor. Nice to see somebody has gotten around to updating the
> | ebuilds, but if there's a stable version, wouldn't it make sense to
> | leave at least one around so people can decide if they want to use
> | the unstable? net-im/skype has the same problem. It's asking for a
> | new dbus which I'll just try out---hope it doesn't break too many
> | things. I suppose they don't offer the old version for download any
> | more and the new one doesn't work with the stable dbus?
>
> Someone screwed up. Our x86 arch lead is going to hit them with a lead
> pipe. You shouldn't encounter forced downgrades in stable unless
> something really icky happens. You shouldn't encounter forced
> downgrades in ~arch unless someone commits a version that works for
> them and it later turns out that it's seriously broken (eg bash-3.1).
>
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