Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

[Olivier Crete]

On Tue, 2006-31-10 at 17:02 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> This leaves package maintainers in the situation that there are
> 'old'/'insecure'/<insert preferred adjective here> versions of
> packages that are hanging around only because arches have fallen
> behind.  Package maintainers want to be able to remove these old
> versions, but currently cannot because of keywording-lag.
> [...]
> 3) ??

What about, package maintainers remove all of the other keywords from
said broken version and add a nasty ewarning message to the pkg_postinst
like "this version has a known security problem, dont use it, bitch to
your arch team if you're not happy"...

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Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer


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