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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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Oh, so we just screw up people using modular X on a stable system by |
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breaking the latest stable ebuild.. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |