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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:37:09
Message-Id: 20100328063443.GA25918@hrair.hsd1.ca.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies by Alistair Bush
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 random
5 > > php/perl library that's known to work.
6 >
7 > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring the
8 > arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do you care
9 > about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on their arch.
10
11 If the pkg isn't a leaf node, you wind up keeping older and older
12 versions lingering across multiple pkgs to keep it from breaking
13 stable.
14
15 This is assuming that it's still heavily frowned upon to remove the
16 only stable version available for a non-dead arch...
17 ~harring

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