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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 29 August 2013 14:09, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On 08/28/2013 01:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>>>> The feedback on the original question was mostly positive. |
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>>>> Most people agree that the long stabilization queues for these |
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>>>> architectures create problems |
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>>>> for maintainers wishing to drop old versions. |
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>>> Is this the only motivation? Drop all the effort that has been put into |
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>>> stabilization work on minor arches just for some impatient maintainers? |
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>>> Keywording/Stabilization is a process we all agreed on joining, so live |
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>>> with it. |
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>> Minor arches holding up GLSAs and removal of vulnerable stable ebuilds |
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>> for 3 months or more is *not* acceptable, and not something I agreed |
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>> to when joining... |
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>> If they can't even do security stabilizations in a reasonable |
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>> timeframe, they have no business being considered stable arches. |
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>> -- |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Ben | yngwin |
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>> Gentoo developer |
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> Has this actually happened? The only thing I ever see about GLSAs is |
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> the occasional closing of a multi-year-old bug for a version of a |
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> package no longer in the tree as "no glsa" |
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Ah, I see the m68k bug referenced in this thread. |
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