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From: Jaco Kroon <jaco@××××××.za>
To: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization requests not making progress
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:50:35
Message-Id: 870f5007-a62d-cc38-b666-bbb10a2f28d5@uls.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization requests not making progress by Mart Raudsepp
1 Hi Mart,
2
3 On 2020/03/28 18:07, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
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5 > Ühel kenal päeval, L, 28.03.2020 kell 17:24, kirjutas Jaco Kroon:
6 >> Hi All,
7 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/705754
8 >> Not sure if this is the only one. This is becoming problematic.
9 >> This specific one is blocking a security issue. x86 and amd64 both
10 >> needs an updated stable. I'd prefer 13.32.0 but it's not been in
11 >> tree for a month yet. But we can do 13.31.0 by now ...
12 > You should stabilize on the security bug, not an extra one that blocks
13 > the security bug.
14 > Security bugs typically gets more immediate attention by arch teams,
15 > but often not those that are blocked by a dependent non-security bug,
16 > as it doesn't show up in the tooling then as such.
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18 Thank you.  I flagged the stabilization bug as obsolute and added the
19 package list to the security bug and added the two related arch teams
20 there instead.
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22 It still worries me that stabilization takes this long.  Is this perhaps
23 a process which we can automate in some way?
24
25 Kind Regards,
26 Jaco