Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:15:15
Message-Id: 19272.52850.175719.236536@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 >> | Vote (6 yes, 1 no): Ebuilds must be completely parsable with
4 >> | =bash-3.2*, any use of later bash features will be reverted.
5
6 > Doesn't the way that's worded mean "it has to work with every single
7 > 3.2 patch", though? I take that to mean "must be completely parsable
8 > with bash-3.2_p0 through bash-3.2_p9999", not "must work with at
9 > least one version of bash-3.2_psomething".
10
11 Then we could simply have said "must be parsable with =bash-3.2" which
12 we didn't. Clearly, the main idea was to disallow usage of bash-4*
13 features. We could also discuss if "use of features" includes things
14 mentioned in the documentation but not properly working because of
15 bugs. Anyway, I think that tweaking the spec's wording wouldn't have
16 many practical consequences.
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18 But we may have to revert that eclass for a different reason:
19 The council has voted (in the same meeting) that an upgrade path for
20 stable systems must be provided for one year at least. One year ago
21 bash-3.2_p33 was the latest stable version, therefore we must not yet
22 rely on any bugfixes in _p48.
23
24 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>