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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:14:35
Message-Id: 45464E04.2000004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
2 > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:28:29 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson"
3 > <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
4 > | To generalize on Francesco's email, how long should developers wait
5 > | for minority arches to mark stuff stable, after a security bug, and
6 > | then a reminder more than 4 months later?
7 >
8 > Indefinitely. There's no harm leaving ebuilds around.
9
10 Joking, right? Who's gonna maintain the vulnerable, broken, dead cruft? You?
11
12 > | 5 months of no response from the arches says something is wrong on
13 > | their side.
14 >
15 > Or it tells you where their priorities lie...
16
17 Sure. So they don't need the keywords nor the package.
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22 Best regards,
23
24 Jakub Moc
25 mailto:jakub@g.o
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30 ... still no signature ;)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>