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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Matti Bickel <mabi@g.o> wrote: |
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> > How's that? I agree that this timely response clause will mean ion-3 |
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> > will never go stable. That's the only thing i could envision to be a |
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> > policy violation. |
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> Right, and packages that aren't aiming for stable eventually shouldn't |
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> really be in the tree at all. |
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Point taken. Tbh, i don't think allowing ion to remain in ~arch would be |
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a big deal though. |
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> A larger issue, though... It requires some way of pushing updates to a |
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> user who hasn't synced for >28 days. |
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The license explicitly makes a exception for a user who hasn't updated |
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or is without net connection, demanding the new version to be shown at |
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next install/upgrade cycle after the sync. |
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> If upstream release a new version that has a serious bug, Gentoo would |
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> be required to include it as the most visible package within 28 days, |
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> even if it is completely unusable. |
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In that case, i will provide a patch or pull the package, if upstream |
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disagrees. However, if it's a critical fix (security), i trust upstream |
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to release a new version asap. On that note: the QA warnings have a |
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patch with gentoo and will be included in the next upstream release. I |
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intend to handle any other fix the same way, and upstream has not spoken |
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out against this. |
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> If he doesn't want to hinder distributions, get him to fix his licence. |
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> The way it is now makes it impossible for distributions to do their job. |
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We all agree it's retarded. However, i can't change the way it is. |
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> > In general: i don't think forking is an option. I won't be |
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> > maintaining a fork myself to begin with. |
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> Probably true, from a Gentoo perspective. If there's a significant ion |
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> userbase, someone else will do the work. |
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There's already someone doing the work for gentoo. Look at bug |
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#136077, which is, tbh, one of my main motivators to work on that |
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package. I just feel that letting (contributing) users down would be |
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kind of a shame. |
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Regards, Matti Bickel |
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