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You both seem to be arguing about what constitutes stable. And there are 2 |
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different definitions: stable as defined by the upstream source and stable |
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as defined in portage. |
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In this case, the "upstream stable" is 0.9.3 and the "portage stable" os 0.8 |
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. |
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Not appreciating the distinction, Maxim was asking why he's not getting the |
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latest stable (expecting the "upstream stable"). |
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Alexander's comments reflect the "portage stable", but don't take in to |
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account that portage does not always keep up. In fact, in this case it's |
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languished rather badly. |
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0.9.1 was added to bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87626) |
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in Apr-05 |
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It looks like it was added to portage in Nov-05 |
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It's been in portage for 11 months, with no bugs filed against it, and it's |
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still ~x86. |
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0.9.2 was added to bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=) in |
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Dec-05 |
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It l was added to portage in Feb-06 |
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It's been in portage for 8 months, with no bugs filed against it, and it's |
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still ~x86. |
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Now, Darren has added a bug for 0.9.3 and a month later, it's still waiting |
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to get added to portage. |
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His issue is 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 should have been stable by now. |
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So, while Alexander is technically correct, (emerge is doing exactly what it |
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should) this not a good thing, because portage is still delivering older, |
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buggy code. Unfortunately, getting ebuilds marked stable requires the |
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intervention of a Gentoo developer and while the documentation says what |
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*should* happen, it does not say what to do when something falls through the |
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cracks. |
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I would suggest Darren look through the develoiper list ( |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml) for developers |
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handling media-sound. Add them to the cc list on the 0.9.2 ebuild and add a |
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comment asking that it be marked stable. And ask for the 0.9.3 to be added |
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as ~x86 |
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dcm |
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On 10/19/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote: |
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> Darren Kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>: |
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> > Quoth the Alexander Skwar |
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> > |
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> >> Darren, on the other hand, seems to have |
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> >> some misunderstanding about how portage works. |
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> > Stop being so bloody obtuse and read my response to Willie. I know |
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> perfectly |
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> > well how portage works. I am taking issues with your vague responses |
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> which |
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> > are open to several interpretations. |
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> No, they are not. I said, that it is unreasonable to expect, that |
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> emerge should offer a version other than 0.8 of dir2ogg, as that's |
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> the latest stable. Or rather, I asked maxim why he thinks, that |
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> a version, other than the latest stable (ie. 0.8), should be |
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> offered. |
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> > You would be well served by writing a clear and concise response |
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> I did. If you try to interprete it somehow and you get it wrong, |
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> than I'm terribly sorry for that, but that's just not my problem. |
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> |
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> > rather than |
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> > another open-ended question if you want to get your point accross. |
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> My point is, that emerge offers, by default, to install the latest |
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> stable version. I wanted to make maxim think about why he expects |
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> a different version. |
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> >> Just because there's |
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> >> a newer version of some program out there in the wild, doesn't mean, |
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> >> that it'll be available to emerge/portage through some sort of magic. |
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> > That's certainly not what I think, |
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> I didn't say so, did I? |
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> Alexander Skwar |
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> <rcw> those apparently-bacteria-like multicolor worms coming out of |
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> microsoft's backorifice |
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> <rcw> that's the backoffice logo |
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