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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:59:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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| baselayout is an example, any package can be used here (although not |
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| many are as critical) |
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| i'm saying that the maintainer may have a certain idea of when the |
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| package is ready for stable (a target feature set, working out |
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| certain quirks, etc...). your current hard view does not allow for |
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| that. for example, i had an arch maintainer one time mark bash-3 |
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| stable before base-system was ready for it (readline, baselayout, |
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| etc... were going to be stabilized together). i smacked them hard |
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| for it, but if we went with this hard view, it would have been |
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| perfectly acceptable behavior. -mike |
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There is nothing in this view that says "consulting the package |
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maintainer is not part of the stable decision-making process for arch |
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teams". |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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