Gentoo Archives: gentoo-kernel

From: "Eric F. GARIOUD" <eric-f.garioud@×××××××.fr>
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 19:51:20
Message-Id: 201306212151.53453.eric-f.garioud@wanadoo.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions by Greg KH
1 On Friday 21 June 2013 19:50:54 Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 07:20:23PM +0200, Eric F. GARIOUD wrote:
3 > > On Friday 21 June 2013 18:48:41 Greg KH wrote:
4 > > > We should _never_ have an end-of-life kernel marked stable, that's just
5 > > > asking for trouble.
6 > >
7 > > What about keeping the stable mark and add a package mask?
8 >
9 > And when does that mask get changed?
10
11 Never!
12 The next step being to drop the ebuild.
13
14 After all, that is what is currently being done with, as an example,
15 avidemux-2.5.6-r2

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