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Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@×××××.com>: |
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> You both seem to be arguing about what constitutes stable. |
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Yep. For emerge, all that matters is the tree. Nothing else is |
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important - actually, nothing else exists, as overlays also become |
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part of the tree, sort of. |
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> 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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Yep. The latter is all that matters for emerge. |
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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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We don't know what Maxim expected. Hence my question. |
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> Alexander's comments reflect the "portage stable", |
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Yes. |
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> but don't take in to |
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> account that portage does not always keep up. |
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As it doesn't matter to what emerge offers. |
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> In fact, in this case it's |
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> languished rather badly. |
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Yes. |
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> His issue is 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 should have been stable by now. |
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I agree with this. |
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> So, while Alexander is technically correct, (emerge is doing exactly what it |
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> should) |
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Yep. I asked, why maxim expected a different result. |
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> this not a good thing, because portage is still delivering older, |
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> buggy code. |
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Yep. |
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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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Very good suggestion! |
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Alexander Skwar |
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* BenC wonders why he has upgraded to 3.3.5-1 before teh X maintainer |
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