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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/libreoffice: ChangeLog libreoffice-3.4.99.1.ebuild libreoffice-3.5.0.0.ebuild
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:59:09
Message-Id: 4EEC6731.30107@gentoo.org
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4 On 12/17/2011 09:34 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
5 > 2011/12/16 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>:
6 >> On 12/12/2011 05:44 PM, Tomas Chvatal (scarabeus) wrote:
7 >>> scarabeus 11/12/12 17:44:48
8 >>>
9 >>> Modified: ChangeLog Added:
10 >>> libreoffice-3.4.99.1.ebuild Removed: libreoffice-3.5.0.0.ebuild
11 >>> Log: Remove miss-named beta0. Add beta1 with better name
12 >>> (presented as downgrade).
13 >>>
14 >>> (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha80/cvs/Linux x86_64, RepoMan
15 >>> options: --force)
16 >>>
17 >>> Revision Changes Path 1.216
18 >>> app-office/libreoffice/ChangeLog
19 >>>
20 >> I know it is a bit late but do you think that commit made sense
21 >> at that time? It is not the best user experience we can provide
22 >> when beta releases appear as downgrades. FWIW beta releases
23 >> should remain masked to avoid useless compilations to slow
24 >> machines instead of digging through Changelogs to see what
25 >> happened. Are the beta releases of libreoffice so critical that
26 >> force you to keep them in the ~testing tree?
27 >>
28 > They should be stable enough plus it helps a lot to catch all the
29 > bugs. Most of those Gentooers reported are being fixed and I think
30 > it is better to test it during the beta cycle rather than start
31 > messing with it after final release.
32 >
33 > So if you don't want those ebuild in main tree just tell me so and
34 > I can add only the releases (but then I won't care about the bugs
35 > much as I do this fixes as part of the upstream QA and don't use
36 > Gentoo [no worries I compile/runtime test it in the dev tinderbox
37 > that has gentoo], so at the point of release I should be focusing
38 > on master branch again).
39 >
40 > Tom
41 >
42 You misunderstood me. I don't object to beta ebuilds but I wonder if
43 testing users want to have them by default. Maybe they should be
44 masked by default and whoever wants the shiny stuff can always unmask
45 them. Anyway not a big deal. I guess I belong to the minority of
46 people who do own a single core PC in 2011 :)
47
48 - --
49 Regards,
50 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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