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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-analyzer/tcpreplay: ChangeLog tcpreplay-3.4.5_beta2.ebuild
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:45:24
Message-Id: 1288417482.4451.168.camel@tablet
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-analyzer/tcpreplay: ChangeLog tcpreplay-3.4.5_beta2.ebuild by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 В Птн, 29/10/2010 в 17:51 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò пишет:
2 > Il giorno ven, 29/10/2010 alle 12.12 +0400, Peter Volkov ha scritto:
3 > >
4 > > Please, hard mask beta versions. To fix this bug it's not hard to
5 > > backport patch (patch referenced in bug) and this will give us good
6 > > version to stabilize. Really don't abuse beta versions.
7 > >
8 > It vastly depends how "beta" the beta version is, so it's up to the
9 > maintainer deciding that.
10
11 Yup. But then, please, tell what were the reasons for this decision (in
12 ChangeLog or inside ebuild). If there are no reasons - hard mask it.
13
14 Also speaking about this specific package: I've maintained this package
15 quite long time and I'm following upstream mailing list and I've never
16 heard from upstream it's safe to push betas on all users.
17
18 --
19 Peter.

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