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Greg KH: |
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> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 05:17:36AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:58:22 -0700 |
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>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Hi Markos, |
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>>> I was wondering why docker 1.0.0 wasn't seeming to get updated on my |
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>>> boxes recently, despite me commiting the update to the cvs tree, and |
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>>> Tianon noticed that it was masked at the moment: |
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>>> # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> (03 May 2014) |
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>>> # Masked for further testing |
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>> Oh, that good old "masked for testing", which actually never works. |
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> Exactly. |
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Yes, people should stop abusing package.mask for testing purposes. If |
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someone has tested something or it is already known to be broken, then a |
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mask is reasonable. |
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If something is that fragile that you want to add it to the tree masked, |
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maybe it isn't even ready for it yet. |
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Fun-stuff, alpha-software and other broken things have a good place in |
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overlays. |
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That said, we should probably set up a policy to get this into peoples |
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heads: don't mask anything without a bug reference. Sure... there are |
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always exceptions. That's why we would call it a policy. |
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If gentoo users run ~arch they have to accept the fact of downgrades, |
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manual intervention etc. That's what ~arch is for and I am using it |
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exactly like that. |
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Doing the opposite |
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* increases the workload, because we are effectively running 3 branches |
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* decreases the amount of testing for that time period, because... it's |
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masked |
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* causes confusion (see this thread) |
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* decreases the quality of our stable branch, because people suddenly |
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expect the unstable branch to be ...stable and don't bother with filing |
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stabilization requests anymore |
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* makes the whole testing/stabilization iteration actually slower, |
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possibly even causing unnecessary exposures to security issues |
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