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El 21/09/11 15:48, Alan McKinnon escribió: |
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> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:34:36 +0700 |
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> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:26, Alan McKinnon |
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>> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:15:02 +0700 |
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>>> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>>>> Hmm, just ran eix-sync followed by emerge -pvuD @world... |
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>>>> And I was unpleasantly surprised when I see |
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>>>> sys-kernel/hardened-sources going back from the currently installed |
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>>>> (and booting) 2.6.39-r13 to -r8 |
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>>>> Changelog does not described why -r13 is pulled. |
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>>> Actually it does :-) |
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>>> 13 Sep 2011; Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> |
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>>> -hardened-sources-2.6.32-r64.ebuild, |
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>>> -hardened-sources-2.6.39-r12.ebuild, |
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>>> -hardened-sources-2.6.39-r13.ebuild, |
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>>> -hardened-sources-3.0.3.ebuild: Removed deprecated versions |
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>> Yeah, it's "deprecated", but what does that mean, exactly? |
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> Nobody knows what deprecated means. Usually it's developer whim... |
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> Like "synergy", nobody on the planet know what that means either |
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>>> Maybe -r13 just never made it to stable at all? |
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>> It's never stable, yes. But somehow I'm more comfortable with -r13 |
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>> than -r8 (5 revisions). |
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> I tend to agree. Higher -r numbers include more kernel bugfixes and |
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> Linus has a very long history of being correct about fixes with not many |
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> wrong calls. |
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> I wish people wouldn't just remove stuff without full details. If |
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> there's an issue with that code, there should be a bug at b.g.o. and |
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> the Changelog should mention it. |
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> Then folks like yourself can read it and make informed decisions. |
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> As it stands, you have nothing but mystery. Argggg. |
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Well deprecated version removal tends to happen because we are not going |
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to aim for those versions stabilization AND there is a newer version |
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available AND upstream tends to ignore bugs happening on older versions. |
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What this means for you is that we are not going to force you to upgrade |
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but if something fails you are in your own ;) |
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PS: Next time come by #gentoo-hardened we won't bite you, I promise ;) |
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