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Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Doug Goldstein: |
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> |
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>> Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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>> |
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>>> Hi all, |
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>>> |
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>>> [CC'ing council@g.o as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, |
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>>> 2007] |
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>>> |
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>>> A subset of council members decided today that multiple version |
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>>> suffixes are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This |
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>>> decission can be appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is |
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>>> sufficient public demand, an earlier meeting can be held. |
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>>> |
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>>> This decission has been made to prevent sufficient precedence for |
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>>> unilateral changes to the tree structure. So far the following |
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>>> package versions are considered illegal: |
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>>> |
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>>> media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 |
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>>> media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1 |
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>>> |
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>>> An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has |
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>>> already been removed from the tree. |
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>>> |
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>>> I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these |
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>>> versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks |
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>>> in advance for this. |
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>>> |
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>>> Danny |
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>>> |
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>> So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and |
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>> it be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next |
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>> meeting. |
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> No, that's not correct. 1 council member can't do that. During the |
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> council meeting of March 8th 2007 the Council decided that at least 2 |
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> members are necessary to act for the whole Council. |
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> FYI this decission has been made by 3 Council members, which have been |
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> Robin, Bryan and which has been initiated by myself. Further, QA |
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> indicated approval prior to this council decission. |
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> |
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>> Danny, |
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>> This wouldn't have to be because you have a vested interest in |
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>> paludis and paludis does not support this syntax and there happens to |
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>> be no reasonable way to support that? |
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>> |
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> Doug, |
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> a) Paludis could support arbitrary combinations of multiple version |
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> suffixes the same way as Portage currently support this. The Paludis |
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> developers chose not to, because |
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> b) A very large number of possible suffix combinations aren't sensible. |
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> Instead of implicitly allowing every possible combination, one should |
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> explicitly allow the sensible subset and explicitly disallow the rest. |
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> c) I try very hard to seperate my interest and work on Gentoo and the |
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> Council and my interest and work on Paludis. |
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> Personally, I would appreciate if you got back to me before you make |
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> claims as the ones i just responded to. Both claims are wrong: One |
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> evidently so (you can ask kloeri and robbat2), for the other you have |
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> to trust either me or ask the other Paludis devs. |
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> Danny |
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QA being spb, who is a noted paludis developer.... |
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