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From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:53:28
Message-Id: 200302241542.20897.gentoo-user@devrieze.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct by Danny Hallwood
1 On Monday 24 February 2003 14:51, Danny Hallwood wrote:
2 > Cheers Bret,
3 >
4 > I was unaware that a ~ signified the package as unstable.
5 >
6 > On the same note:
7 > Anybody know why acct has been marked as unstable, Debian class this as
8 > mature and it does not appear to have had code update for 5 years.
9 > I have checked the Gentoo bugzilla and found one entry relating to acct,
10 > this is a request to have it included.
11
12 For one gentoo is in some state of freeze (not too strict though) for
13 gentoo-1.4, and when packages have just been added they are made unstable
14 first to discover possible problems with the ebuilds and the package code.
15 The code aparently is rather stable, but the ebuild might have problems.
16 That's why it starts life as testing
17
18 Paul
19
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21 Paul de Vrieze
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23 Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl
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