From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FKzeG-0002Av-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:16:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2JFFX4O020054; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:15:33 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2JFBv7T003628 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:11:57 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2006 15:11:57 -0000 Received: from chello080108115144.1.11.univie.teleweb.at (EHLO sputnik886) [80.108.115.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 19 Mar 2006 16:11:57 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28563408 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: firefox-1.5.x still in ~arch From: Matthias Langer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1142778259.17324.16.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:11:53 +0100 Message-Id: <1142781113.19054.8.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 9e3d0d8e-d7dc-4275-9004-bc24d6565a45 X-Archives-Hash: f23d441842e55f676a4218cf040b3289 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; +mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1.ebuild: official branding support, ewarn about regchrome " that gentoo now has official branding support ... Matthias -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list