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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] going to need a 2.0.53-rc8
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:00:27
Message-Id: 20051112190003.GA17300@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] going to need a 2.0.53-rc8 by Jason Stubbs
1 On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:26:41PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:14, Brian Harring wrote:
3 > > Might be worth noting that as of my last sync, .53* and friends are
4 > > *still* ~arch.
5 >
6 > Yep, waiting on approval from the arch teams before going stable. I'll be
7 > posting a notification here when it happens as well. While waiting on the
8 > arch teams has extended the ~arch time of .53_preX, they've also exposed
9 > regressions that wouldn't have been picked up otherwise. Other than
10 > documentation concerns, they seem happy with .53 as it stands and I really
11 > don't want to jeopardize (that's a weird lookin' word) that.
12 >
13 > How's this for a compromise? Release the current 2.0.53 into stable so that
14 > 2.0.51.22-r3 can be dropped out of the picture altogether. Then release a
15 > 2.0.53.1 into ~arch with the lib handling fix so that we can get some
16 > guaranteed testing time of the patch. In a table:
17 >
18 > 2.0.53 arch
19 > 2.0.53_p1 ~arch
20 > 2.0.54_pre1 package.mask
21 >
22 > After a couple of weeks, move 2.0.53_p1 to stable and drop 2.0.53.
23 No major complaints on general idea, dependant on timeframe (outside
24 of our control).
25
26 *cough* that's that funky _p1 you're using there? :)
27 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] going to need a 2.0.53-rc8 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>