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On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:28 am, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move |
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> it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready |
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> yet for arch, adding a string variable to ebuilds indicating why the |
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> maintainer considers the package unstable, eg: |
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i really want to get away from the idea of 'package.mask is for testing |
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packages' ... its current dual role as both masking 'testing' packages and |
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'broken' packages is wrong imo |
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we dont want to try reeducating our users to not be afraid of package.mask |
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because a lot of things in there they *should* be afraid of |
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-mike |
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