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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:14:01
Message-Id: 4E896086.7010301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild by "Paweł Hajdan
1 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." schrieb:
2 > I find the back-and-forth or the "edit war" most disturbing. Okay, so
3 > the package got removed and re-introduced, and removed and re-introduced...
4
5 There is no edit war, I restored the package once because I assumed it
6 was mistakenly removed too early.
7 When it was removed again then it became clear that it was willful
8 action and so I refrained from further commits. Also QA told me to not
9 add it back again.
10
11 > In fact, it seems it would be best to let you guys talk on irc and agree
12 > on some solution.
13
14 I wrote to ssuominen on #gentoo-dev IRC, first time on 2011-10-01
15 11:42:49 UTC after the first removal, last time on 2011-10-02 13:01:41
16 UTC after second removal.
17 A discussion between him and other developers ensued, but I never got a
18 direct reply from him.
19
20 His only reaction that was likely directed at me was "grr, who is
21 chitchan.." at 2011-10-01 18:14:10 UTC, after I restored qutecom.
22
23 > Finally, forcing downgrades _is_ broken (are you using stable?). If
24 > that's not clear, I'm totally for putting it in the devmanual/quiz or
25 > some other place like that.
26
27 I asked for authoritative documentation which forbids downgrades several
28 times, but got only vague references (and "common sense") as reply.
29
30 The arguments I have heard about why downgrading linux-headers is bad is
31 that it may cause unspecified problems with glibc build (why doesn't
32 glibc depend on proper linux-headers version then?). And something about
33 out of tree compiles.
34
35 ssuominen himself mentioned
36 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311241#c2 but that talks about
37 libraries not headers. And a bug comment can hardly be called
38 authoritative documentation.
39
40
41 Best regards,
42 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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