Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:19:40
Message-Id: 20080109171851.0077b35d@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Richard Freeman
1 On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:11:47 -0500
2 Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3 > If an ebuild meets the time criteria above and there are no technical
4 > issues preventing stabilization, then the maintainer MAY choose to
5 > delete an older version even if it is the most recent stable version
6 > for a particular arch.
7
8 ...and as soon as they do, everyone gets hit by pages and pages of
9 repoman output, and users get royally humped. Developers doing this
10 is by far the most common cause for people getting hit by the repoman
11 thing.
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh

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