[gentoo-dev] Sorry about the DateTime fiasco

[Michael Cummings]

Protocol doesn't demand it - but human decency sure as heck does. I just
wanted to apologize to everyone for my erroneous commit to the 1Q-2006
file yesterday.

The boring background is that some upstream cpan authors use a numbering
scheme that makes sense in a decimal fashion, where .29001 is less
than .30 (expand the 0's, yada yada yada, ask your kid sibling about
math at school today), but portage expects that numbering scheme to
actually be a version identifier (so to speak, its the gist I'm going
for here, don't flame me on the technicalities of how portage reads a
version number). dev-perl/DateTime came out with a .2901 release, which
I put in the tree as such many a moon ago (about 1.4 moons ago to be
exact), and recently .30 came out. Because of the math business I just
mentioned, .30 would never get picked up by anyone since (dropping the
decimal point) 2901 > 30. I 'moved' .2901 to .29.01 to make this work
better. All was good. 

Then I had this brilliant idea - use the quarterly file to help people
migrate that number, no bizarre downgrades when the emerge world. 'cept
move in the quarterly isn't for moving a version, its for moving between
categories, package names, etc., and as such I made a mistake.

No need to respond to this message (i'd prefer it if you didn't actually
- between the 'stuff happens' and the 'your an idiot, revoke that bad
boys right to a keyboard' messages, i think it would all even out).

~mcummings