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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why adding python3_8 to Gentoo sucks?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:41:27
Message-Id: 9749c9eebb1531ac05ad615edb621e92d9158052.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why adding python3_8 to Gentoo sucks? by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 14:55 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > Two things on that page are outright wrong:
4 > > 1. If the package has stable keywords, they should be moved to the
5 > > new revision without dropping. To commit the ebuild, repoman
6 > > commit --straight-to-stable option should be used.
7 > > That violates our other stabilization policies and common sense.
8 >
9 > This is in the context of revision bumps, not version bumps. Also, the
10 > item immediately preceding it clarifies that any non-trivial changes
11 > require dropping to ~arch.
12 >
13
14 More precisely, this is in context of dependency corrections. There is
15 no need to go through stabilization to restrict too broad dependency
16 specifications, while stable users hit the issue for the next two
17 months.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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