Re: Ebuild freeze (was: [gentoo-dev] wine 20020228)

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 08:41, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Per Wigren <wigren@××××.se> writes:
>
> > Just a note:
> > I did a:
> > # cp wine-20020122.ebuild wine-20020228.ebuild
> > and it works fine!
>
> Isn't it too bad that ebuild freeze is in effect?  ;^)
>
> Having re-read the announcement, though, it's not clear to me whether
> new versions of existing portages are subject to the freeze, or only
> the newly submitted ebuilds...
>
> Clarification, anyone?

The main purpose of the ebuild freeze is to free up developer time.  If
you have some free time and want to update a few ebuilds, that's fine --
as long as you ensure the new versions work.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.