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>>>>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Alexander Berntsen wrote: |
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>> And on what basis would you stabilise Portage, when there are no |
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>> ebuilds in the tree to test its EAPI 6 code? |
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> When I do QA in projects I'm involved with (at least outside of |
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> Gentoo), we don't do it live on end-user systems. I'll leave the |
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> details as an exercise for the Gentoo developer. |
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That sort of QA should take place before making a new Portage relaese. |
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I was talking about marking it stable, though. |
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Quoting the devmanual: |
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Both the package version and the ebuild are widely tested, known |
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to work and not have any serious issues on the indicated platform. |
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"Widely tested" has always meant tested on unstable users' systems. |
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Ulrich |
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