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From: Alexey Eschenko <skobkin-ru@××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package version bump policy
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 13:14:27
Message-Id: a3d77cb0-5b8f-041a-4e7b-a751f00f9eb3@ya.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Package version bump policy by Michael Orlitzky
1 It's "This is not a final release, and it does have known issues,
2 including a crash bug". But it can be used with PHP 7.2 to start
3 upgrading applications.
4
5 Ok, I'll create the issue in the Bugzilla and let the maintainer decide.
6
7
8 On 12/08/2017 03:51 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
9 > On 12/08/2017 07:06 AM, Alexey Eschenko wrote:
10 >> Hi guys.
11 >>
12 >> Some time ago PHP 7.2 was released. To start working with it I was
13 >> needed XDebug and it was released in "alpha" version: https://xdebug.org/
14 >>
15 >> Is there any policy against version bumps for "alpha" versions or I can
16 >> create the issue about dev-php/xdebug bump in the Bugzilla?
17 >>
18 > It's up to the maintainer... we have no policy against it, but you don't
19 > want to commit broken/untested packages to the tree obviously.
20 >
21 > If the xdebug alpha is "we added php-7.2 support but haven't tested it
22 > yet", then feel free to submit a normal version bump. On the other hand,
23 > if it's "this new alpha version happens to support php-7.2 but also has
24 > new features that might eat your server," then it would be better to add
25 > it alongside a package.mask entry that says "masked for testing" or
26 > something like that.
27 >
28
29 --
30 Kind regards,
31 Alexey Eschenko
32 https://skobk.in/