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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:07:47
Message-Id: 1088006915.32246.3.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 11:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Not true. Simple example (maintainer's arch is x86):
3 >
4 > "This would be marked stable except that the x86-only turbo super
5 > accelerator (written in assembly) no longer works with files over
6 > 1GByte."
7
8 Would comments in the ebuild not be enough? Look at the
9 vmware-workstation-4.5.2 ebuild for an example.
10
11 I don't see why it would not be easy enough to comment the reasons an
12 ebuild might not be marked stable. Another example that I can think of
13 is the xorg-x11 ebuilds. You can see an obvious TODO list before it is
14 considered stable.
15
16 --
17 Chris Gianelloni
18 Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
19 Gentoo Linux
20
21 Is your power animal a penguin?

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