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From: "Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:39:57
Message-Id: 1315935041-sup-2596@raeviah
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses by Ulrich Mueller
1 Excerpts from Ulrich Mueller's message of 2011-09-13 19:25:59 +0200:
2 > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 >
4 > > Thanks for the reminder; I looked, and it turns out that we now have
5 > > a great precedent.
6 >
7 > > Quoting PMS:
8 >
9 > > "The required bash version was retroactively updated from 3.0 to 3.2
10 > > in November 2009 (see http://www.gentoo.
11 > > org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109.txt)."
12 >
13 > > So we could just retroactively update it again and let people scream
14 > > if they're actually affected by this.
15 >
16 > If you read the quoted council log, you'll find that the retroactive
17 > change was done because usage of bash 3.2 features in the tree was
18 > already widespread at that time. This is very different from the
19 > current situation, therefore it is not at all a precedent.
20 >
21 > Ulrich
22
23 So we need to do it “illegally” first to make it “legal”?
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26 Amadeusz Żołnowski
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