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On Wednesday 01 February 2006 02:28, Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> said: |
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> > Is there any need for the packages to go into stable without the X deps being |
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> > fixed? Why not just open a bug for the package maintainer and mark it against |
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> > whatever bug is requesting stabling of that package? Moving something to |
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> > stable that you know is going to be broken within a relatively short |
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> > timeframe seems like a very bad idea... |
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> We are talking about completely unrelated versions, not what we are touching. |
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> For example, old imagemagick ebuilds sitting around, where the newer ebuilds |
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> are fixed, but old ones are not. We have a security bug open about this |
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> package right now, and having an error about deps in some old version doesn't |
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> really help arch teams at all. |
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Security bugs are about the only time I can see any urgency. That's not |
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a good reason to completely degrade the error though. A switch similar |
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to --ignore-other-archs that skips certain checks for urgent fixes seems |
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reasonable though. |
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Jason Stubbs |
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