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From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:27:18
Message-Id: 564C607E.3090808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 18/11/15 12:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > That sort of QA should take place before making a new Portage
6 > relaese. I was talking about marking it stable, though.
7 The problem we are talking about isn't making sure Portage's EAPI 6
8 support is bug free, but the pain caused by encouraging widespread use
9 of features not available in the stabilised Portage.
10
11 > Quoting the devmanual:
12 >
13 > arch Both the package version and the ebuild are widely tested,
14 > known to work and not have any serious issues on the indicated
15 > platform.
16 >
17 > "Widely tested" has always meant tested on unstable users'
18 > systems.
19 Appealing to tradition or technical debt is not a strong way of
20 convincing me. That you've been doing things wrong all along does not
21 make for a good excuse to keep doing it wrong.
22 - --
23 Alexander
24 bernalex@g.o
25 https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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