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From: Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:56:50
Message-Id: 201003281956.08263.ali_bush@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies by Brian Harring
1 > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:31:10PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
2 > > > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > >
4 > > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some
5 > > > random php/perl library that's known to work.
6 > >
7 > > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring
8 > > the arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do
9 > > you care about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on
10 > > their arch.
11 >
12 > If the pkg isn't a leaf node, you wind up keeping older and older
13 > versions lingering across multiple pkgs to keep it from breaking
14 > stable.
15
16 Oh no, I mean you stop filing stable requests for the arch *period*. So it
17 just means you have to keep the last stable release for that arch around.
18
19 >
20 > This is assuming that it's still heavily frowned upon to remove the
21 > only stable version available for a non-dead arch...
22 > ~harring