From: | "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> |
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To: | gentoo-project@l.g.o |
Subject: | [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] News item: alpha, ia64: maintainers may remove stable |
Date: | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:32:15 |
Message-Id: | 201310242332.07823.dilfridge@gentoo.org |
1 | ... and committed for lack of feedback. :) |
2 | |
3 | Am Sonntag, 20. Oktober 2013, 16:18:38 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: |
4 | > For general review and improvement, to be committed 2013-10-27... |
5 | > |
6 | > #### |
7 | > |
8 | > Title: alpha, ia64: maintainers may remove stable versions |
9 | > Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> |
10 | > Content-Type: text/plain |
11 | > Posted: 2013-10-27 |
12 | > Revision: 1 |
13 | > News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
14 | > Display-If-Keyword: alpha |
15 | > Display-If-Keyword: ia64 |
16 | > |
17 | > Following discussion [1] and a vote by the Gentoo Council [2,3], |
18 | > on alpha and ia64 package maintainers are allowed to remove |
19 | > the last stable version of a package under certain circumstances |
20 | > (basically when it is outdated and the stablerequest for a newer |
21 | > version on alpha or ia64 has been pending for a while; for the |
22 | > details, see [2,3]). |
23 | > |
24 | > You should be aware that this may occasionally cause broken |
25 | > dependencies and/or require keywording of packages for stable |
26 | > users. Then again, things may work out fine just as well. |
27 | > |
28 | > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2975/focus=2984 |
29 | > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917.txt |
30 | > [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt |
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33 | -- |
34 | |
35 | Andreas K. Huettel |
36 | Gentoo Linux developer |
37 | dilfridge@g.o |
38 | http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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