Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking modular X

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 13:49, Joshua Jackson wrote:
> Mark Loeser <halcy0n <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> > Donnie Berkholz <spyderous <at> gentoo.org> said:
> > > Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > > The patch now has the debugging output and x11-base/xorg-x11 check 
> > > > removed. 
> > > 
> > > Excellent. Works perfectly. Since we're failing on them, perhaps we can
> > > say "obsolete" instead of "deprecated"?
> > 
> > Can we put this back to being a warning?  It makes things a pain for arch
> > teams that are trying to mark a completely unrelated version of the 
> > package. 
> 
> I will have to agree that this change has made it a pain to mark anything
> stable. I had 4 out of the 6 I did today bail out because of this. I took 
> the simple easy fix and removed the check to stabalize the packages I needed 
> to. I know we have people who want modular X yesterday, but causing trouble 
> for dev's going about business that doesn't involve the modular problems 
> directly is only going to cause resentment and frustration to all the teams 
> involved. 

Is there any need for the packages to go into stable without the X deps being 
fixed? Why not just open a bug for the package maintainer and mark it against 
whatever bug is requesting stabling of that package? Moving something to 
stable that you know is going to be broken within a relatively short 
timeframe seems like a very bad idea...

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