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On Sunday 04 September 2005 22:53, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> I tend to think that's fair. At least in my view, the goal is not to |
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> minimize the importance of package maintainers, but simply to separate |
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> package maintainance from tree maintainance. |
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That's right. I think this is good, as a maintainer. |
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What we actually lack now is a way to "suggest" a "candidate stable". |
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For example, maintaining libtorrent, I found a point where libtorrent/rtorrent |
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worked fine on am64 and ppc, but crashed in some situation on x86, because of |
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a conjunction of -fomit-frame-pointer and exception handling. |
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I refrained from editing the ebuild stable on amd64... so I just added the |
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filter-flag on another version and considered that as possible x86 stable at |
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that point. |
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the ~x86 ebuilds were working, without tinkering with them, but not "stable |
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enough" for the stable tree anyway. |
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Giving an advice on what to marking stable is probably useful. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) |
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