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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: deprecation of baselayout-1.x
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:20:35
Message-Id: 19981.47951.712983.633645@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: deprecation of baselayout-1.x by William Hubbs
1 >>>>> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, William Hubbs wrote:
2
3 >> We have a policy on this, see
4 >> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109-summary.txt>:
5 >>
6 >> | Upgrade path for old systems
7 >> | ----------------------------
8 >> | Vote (unanimous): The ebuild tree must provide an upgrade path to
9 >> | a stable system that hasn't been updated for one year.
10 >>
11 >> So the time window should be at least one year after stabilisation
12 >> of baselayout-2 and openrc.
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14 > To clarify then, we can do everything except remove the migration
15 > code from the openrc ebuilds. That step needs to wait until 28 Jun
16 > 2012 right?
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18 If that is sufficient for providing an upgrade path, then yes.
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20 Ulrich