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On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 07:56 -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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> Matthias Langer posted <1142778259.17324.16.camel@××××××××××.ruz-net>, |
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> excerpted below, on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:24:19 +0100: |
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> > I'm just curious: What is the reason that firefox-1.5.x is still in |
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> > ~arch ? |
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> General policy is that an ebuild should be bug-free in ~arch for 30 days |
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> before it is stabilized. Individual herds and maintainers may have their |
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> own policies, but the above 30 day guideline is the general Gentoo rule of |
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> thumb. |
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> Looking at the changelog, mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2 was only added to the |
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> tree on February 24. The -r2 indicates updates serious enough to bump the |
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> release number were released at least twice, and the 1.5 ebuilds are at |
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> -r9, indicating 10 versions (the first being -r0, not marked with an |
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> release number, of course). |
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> That's a /lot/ of versions! I'd guess there have simply been enough |
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> issues that no version of 1.5 has yet made it 30 days bug-free in ~arch, |
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> altho the .0.1-r2 version above is getting close to 30 days in ~arch now, |
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> tho I don't know its bug status. |
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> I often check the portage tree changelogs and Gentoo bugzilla site status |
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> of particular packages that I'm interested in. I'm glad the info is |
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> available, as it has proven useful quite often. |
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Thanks for your answer; however, i've seen new versions of firefox |
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getting from ~arch to stable much faster than 30 days, but i guess that |
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was because of security issues; by the way, i was happy to read |
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*mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1 (09 Feb 2006) |
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09 Feb 2006; <anarchy@g.o> +mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1.ebuild: |
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official branding support, ewarn about regchrome |
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" |
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that gentoo now has official branding support ... |
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Matthias |
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