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From: Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: Kernel Team vanilla-sources policy
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:57:06
Message-Id: 51FDB4DC.5090003@yahoo.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: Kernel Team vanilla-sources policy by Mike Pagano
1 Minor grammar/typographical errata:
2
3 On 04/08/13 12:53 AM, Mike Pagano wrote:
4 > The Gentoo Kernel Team will no longer be providing stable vanilla-sources
5 > kernels. All currently stabilized vanilla-sources versions will be dropped
6 > to ~arch. The Arch teams, via normal requests of the Kernel Team, will
7 > continue to stabilize gentoo-sources kernels upon request. This decision is
8 > based on the facts that upstream is now releasing approximately 1-2 vanilla-
9 try not to wrap vanilla-sources on the hyphen if possible
10 > sources kernels a week. Arch teams, understandable, are unable to keep up with
11 s/understandable/understandably/
12 > this rate of release. As most vanilla releases contain security fixes, the
13 > user who only runs stable vanilla-sources will consistently be behind and
14 > potentially at risk. For the latest upstream non Gentoo patched vanilla
15 s/non Gentoo patched/non-Gentoo-patched/ or "upstream kernel unpatched
16 by Gentoo"
17 > kernel, we recommend user add 'sys-kernel/vanilla-sources' to their
18 s/user add/adding/;s/their/the/ or similar; "recommend user add" is not
19 grammatically correct
20 > package.accept_keywords file. Gentoo-sources will continue to be a tested and
21 s/Gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources/
22 > supported version for Gentoo users.
23
24 s/\. /. /g
25
26 (or vice versa)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: Kernel Team vanilla-sources policy Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>