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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package version bump policy
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:51:52
Message-Id: 392d2854-378e-e68c-4445-6ee4d977588e@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Package version bump policy by Alexey Eschenko
1 On 12/08/2017 07:06 AM, Alexey Eschenko wrote:
2 > Hi guys.
3 >
4 > Some time ago PHP 7.2 was released. To start working with it I was
5 > needed XDebug and it was released in "alpha" version: https://xdebug.org/
6 >
7 > Is there any policy against version bumps for "alpha" versions or I can
8 > create the issue about dev-php/xdebug bump in the Bugzilla?
9 >
10
11 It's up to the maintainer... we have no policy against it, but you don't
12 want to commit broken/untested packages to the tree obviously.
13
14 If the xdebug alpha is "we added php-7.2 support but haven't tested it
15 yet", then feel free to submit a normal version bump. On the other hand,
16 if it's "this new alpha version happens to support php-7.2 but also has
17 new features that might eat your server," then it would be better to add
18 it alongside a package.mask entry that says "masked for testing" or
19 something like that.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Package version bump policy Alexey Eschenko <skobkin-ru@××.ru>