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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: taking a break from arches stabilization
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:21:26
Message-Id: 10b75b04-7a56-2560-2223-2b1f3aa291db@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: taking a break from arches stabilization by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 07/12/2017 12:15 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 07/11/2017 04:13 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
3 >> On 07/11/2017 03:47 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
4 >>> The main risk of breakage of a package moving from testing to
5 >>> stable is always at build time anyway.
6 >>
7 >> citation needed
8 >>
9 >
10 > Anecdotal evidence against, currently gnupg 2.1.21 scdaemon bug will
11 > happily sign a third party public keyblock's UID using signature subkey
12 > on smartcard, which results in useless signature that doesn't have any
13 > effect, but the application builds fine.
14 >
15 > This means gnupg 2.1.21 is not a candidate for stabilization, but it
16 > certainly builds fine.
17 >
18
19 Stop trolling - you know perfectly well that this sort of issue would
20 never ever be caught during arch testing. Nor should it be - it's called
21 *arch* testing for a reason.
22
23 Ensuring that a package's functionality is of merchantable quality is
24 the maintainer's responsibility (that's you!).

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: taking a break from arches stabilization Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>