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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:20:49 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> |
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| On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > The usual period is thirty days. |
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| Grep this mailing list, most often a one week period was used. |
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This is a recent change, and usually someone replies with "why not a |
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month?". |
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| > Once it's in p.mask it's effectively gone, to the extent that |
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| > ignoring it for a month is fine. |
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| Who said a package gets masked before it gets removed? There is no |
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| such requirement in the ebuild policy. |
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It's not a requirement. It's a courtesy to your users and fellow |
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developers, at least some of whom would very much appreciate it if you |
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left things for ~four weeks rather than ~one. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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