Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: firefox-1.5.x still in ~arch

[Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at>]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 07:56 -0700, Duncan wrote:
> Matthias Langer posted <1142778259.17324.16.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net>,
> excerpted below,  on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:24:19 +0100:
> 
> > I'm just curious: What is the reason that firefox-1.5.x is still in
> > ~arch ?
> 
> General policy is that an ebuild should be bug-free in ~arch for 30 days
> before it is stabilized.  Individual herds and maintainers may have their
> own policies, but the above 30 day guideline is the general Gentoo rule of
> thumb.
> 
> Looking at the changelog, mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2 was only added to the
> tree on February 24.  The -r2 indicates updates serious enough to bump the
> release number were released at least twice, and the 1.5 ebuilds are at
> -r9, indicating 10 versions (the first being -r0, not marked with an
> release number, of course).
> 
> That's a /lot/ of versions!  I'd guess there have simply been enough
> issues that no version of 1.5 has yet made it 30 days bug-free in ~arch,
> altho the .0.1-r2 version above is getting close to 30 days in ~arch now,
> tho I don't know its bug status.
> 
> I often check the portage tree changelogs and Gentoo bugzilla site status
> of particular packages that I'm interested in.  I'm glad the info is
> available, as it has proven useful quite often.
> 
> -- 
Thanks for your answer; however, i've seen new versions of firefox
getting from ~arch to stable much faster than 30 days, but i guess that
was because of security issues; by the way, i was happy to read

"
*mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1 (09 Feb 2006)

  09 Feb 2006; <anarchy@gentoo.org> +mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1.ebuild:
  official branding support, ewarn about regchrome
"

that gentoo now has official branding support ...

Matthias


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