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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HgQa5-0001XV-Jp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:21:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3OJKU8g021847; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:20:30 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3OJHAo9016973 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:17:10 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (unknown [65.111.173.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3440964D43 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gentoo.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:15:55 -0600 Received: from 166.70.55.210 (SquirrelMail authenticated user beandog) by wonkabar.org with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:15:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <19541.166.70.55.210.1177442155.squirrel@wonkabar.org> In-Reply-To: <200704242111.44663.kugelfang@gentoo.org> References: <200704242111.44663.kugelfang@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:15:55 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 From: "Steve Dibb" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a 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 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: c4f34252-b263-4910-85f6-9b89c5029f5d X-Archives-Hash: a333282d5f9d42720acaaf8e28ff89f7 > Hi all, > > [CC'ing council@g.o as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, 2007] > > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes > are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be > appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is sufficient public > demand, an earlier meeting can be held. > > This decission has been made to prevent sufficient precedence for > unilateral changes to the tree structure. So far the following package > versions are considered illegal: > > media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 > media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1 MPlayer needs to be fixed, though it's in the same boat as transcode ... it's a release candidate plus a patch level. Multimedia apps are infamous for rarely having releases, so we are stuck with SVN snapshots. What we really need is a suffix for RCS systems, since that's what they really are. However, if anyone has any suggestions for naming schemes in the meantime, I'm all ears. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list