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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:59:22
Message-Id: 20140630235805.515582eb@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries by James Cloos
1 Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 17:40:16
2 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> napisał(a):
3
4 > I've read that some heavy users of db, such as sks, work better with 5.3
5 > than they did with older versions. But upgrading needs to be done with care.
6 >
7 > So it should be fine to unmask 5.3 and slowly update reverse
8 > dependencies to depend on 5.3 instead of whichever 4.x they currently
9 > demand.
10 >
11 > Unmasking the earlier 5.x releases seems unnecessary, though.
12
13 While at it, please don't unmask <5.3.28-r1 (EAPI<5 ebuilds). Multilib
14 relies heavily on not having anything EAPI<5 over 4.8.30-r1.
15
16 --
17 Best regards,
18 Michał Górny

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