Gentoo Archives: gentoo-kernel

From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:02:57
Message-Id: 20130621210312.GA28744@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions by "Eric F. GARIOUD"
1 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:51:53PM +0200, Eric F. GARIOUD wrote:
2 > On Friday 21 June 2013 19:50:54 Greg KH wrote:
3 > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 07:20:23PM +0200, Eric F. GARIOUD wrote:
4 > > > On Friday 21 June 2013 18:48:41 Greg KH wrote:
5 > > > > We should _never_ have an end-of-life kernel marked stable, that's just
6 > > > > asking for trouble.
7 > > >
8 > > > What about keeping the stable mark and add a package mask?
9 > >
10 > > And when does that mask get changed?
11 >
12 > Never!
13 > The next step being to drop the ebuild.
14 >
15 > After all, that is what is currently being done with, as an example,
16 > avidemux-2.5.6-r2
17
18 I'm confused, exactly what are you proposing?
19
20 greg k-h