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From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:50:26
Message-Id: 1110590519.10977.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable? by Ernst Herzberg
1 uOn Sat, 2005-12-03 at 01:01 +0100, Ernst Herzberg wrote:
2 > dev-util/esvn:
3 >
4 > 0.6.8-r1 was masked, and has some crazy bugs, that this stuff is not usable
5 > for an 'enduser'. If you select an 'working directory', the last character of
6 > the path get lost. You have to create a workspace, select there a working
7 > directory, add the last character by hand....
8 >
9 > OkOk, as long as this stuff is masked, no problem. BUT: Upstream has released
10 > a new version with this bug fixed. Why went the buggy version stable? And the
11 > new with the bug fixed version is masked? That make no sense to me.
12 >
13 > Can somebody explain that?
14
15 Maybe you should ask MrNess... But he doesn't seem to think that testing
16 is important...
17
18 --
19 Olivier Crête
20 tester@g.o
21 x86 Security Liaison

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Re: [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable? Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>