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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:51:43 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| >>Ebuilds should only be stabilized, i.e. placed from "~arch" into |
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| >"arch" when |
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| the maintainer, or an architecture maintainer deems the ebuild to be |
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| stable. |
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| From a package maintainer perspective, I'm not fine with it. Imho an |
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| arch should simply not go stable, before the package maintainer marks |
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| his arch stable. I cannot care for arch maintainers - and their users |
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| - if they run into problems, e.g. due to dependency changes while I do |
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| not consider the ebuild stable. If the arch maintainer thinks, he |
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| knows a package better than me and cannot even ask before doing so - |
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| o.k., not my problem. We had the discussion a while back... |
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Personally I prefer my original wording: |
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> Arch teams: when moving from ~arch to arch on an actively maintained |
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> package where you're going ahead of the maintainer's arch, it's best |
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> to consult first. You don't necessarily have to follow the |
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> maintainer's advice, but at least listen to what they have to say. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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