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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:16:38PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > |
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> > [CC'ing council@g.o as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, 2007] |
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> > |
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> > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes |
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> > are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be |
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> > appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is sufficient public |
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> > demand, an earlier meeting can be held. |
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> > |
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> > This decission has been made to prevent sufficient precedence for |
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> > unilateral changes to the tree structure. So far the following package |
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> > versions are considered illegal: |
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> > |
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> > media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 |
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> > media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1 |
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> > |
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> > An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has already |
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> > been removed from the tree. |
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> > |
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> > I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these |
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> > versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks in |
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> > advance for this. |
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> > |
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> > Danny |
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> > |
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> |
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> So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and it |
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> be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next meeting. |
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> Danny, |
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> This wouldn't have to be because you have a vested interest in paludis |
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> and paludis does not support this syntax and there happens to be no |
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> reasonable way to support that? |
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Incidentally.... paludis *does* support it. |
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Fernando J. Pereda GarcimartÃn |
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