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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:40:20
Message-Id: 87606svkdm.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, Feb 19 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:05:37 -0700, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
4 >
5 >> It is a good point. Why Gentoo developers marked or allow to mark
6 >> gnucash-2.7 branch stable in portage when the developers
7 >> https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml did not mark it STABLE
8 >
9 > The key phrase there is "stable in portage". Not whether it is suitable
10 > or not for any particular use. If the ebuild is considered stable, it
11 > should be marked as such.
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13 Those interested in the status of gnucash-2.7 should follow bug 647112.
14 In particular if there is a reply to comment 6.
15
16 allan