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· Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>: |
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> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:30:40AM -0700, Darren Kirby wrote: |
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>> > > Well, I'm the upstream author, and _I_ think there should be different |
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>> > > (ie: newer) version offered. Good enough? |
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>> > No, not good enough, as that doesn't matter at all. All that matters is, |
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>> > what's in the tree. And the latest stable version is 0.8, no matter what |
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>> > you think. The question remains: Why should a different version be offered? |
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>> Sorry Alexander, I just don't get where you're going with this. Version 0.8 |
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>> was released September 27, 2004! There have been 4 major new releases since |
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>> then, which include many bug fixes, and new and improved features. 0.8 is old |
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>> and busted, 0.9.3 is the new hotness! |
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> Guys, |
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> Just to prevent the heat from escalating, may I offer my observation |
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> that the two of you seems to be arguing about completely different |
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> things? |
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> Alexander (and I, likewise) probably misunderstood Darren's question |
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> from the start: when he posted, I thought his expectation that "emerge |
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> dir2ogg" should bring in a newer version than what was offered was a |
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> lack of understanding of how the portage tree works |
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maxim is the OP, not Darren. Darren, on the other hand, seems to have |
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some misunderstanding about how portage works. 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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> But it seems clear to me now that Darren is actually asking about |
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> whether it is polite to give the devs a gentle nudge, asking them |
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> to remove an old, buggy version of software from the portage tree |
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> and add/stablize newer, updated versions (and how to go about doing |
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> so if it is polite). |
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Of course it is. You add a bug to bugzilla informing the maintainer |
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of the version bump. You can find out the maintainer of a package |
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by looking at the metadata.xml file to be found in the portage tree |
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directory of the package (eg. /usr/portage/media-sound/dir2ogg/metadata.xml). |
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What I normally do, is that I enter such a bug and add this herd |
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and/or maintainer to the CC list. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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