Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

[Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>]

Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Doug Goldstein:
> Danny van Dyk wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has
> > already been removed from the tree.
> >
> > I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these
> > versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks
> > in advance for this.
> >
> > Danny
>
> So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and
> it be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next
> meeting.

No, that's not correct. 1 council member can't do that. During the 
council meeting of March 8th 2007 the Council decided that at least 2 
members are necessary to act for the whole Council.

FYI this decission has been made by 3 Council members, which have been 
Robin, Bryan and which has been initiated by myself. Further, QA  
indicated approval prior to this council decission.

> Danny,
>
> This wouldn't have to be because you have a vested interest in
> paludis and paludis does not support this syntax and there happens to
> be no reasonable way to support that?

Doug,

a) Paludis could support arbitrary combinations of multiple version 
suffixes the same way as Portage currently support this. The Paludis 
developers chose not to, because

b) A very large number of possible suffix combinations aren't sensible.
Instead of implicitly allowing every possible combination, one should 
explicitly allow the sensible subset and explicitly disallow the rest.

c) I try very hard to seperate my interest and work on Gentoo and the 
Council and my interest and work on Paludis.

Personally, I would appreciate if you got back to me before you make 
claims as the ones i just responded to. Both claims are wrong: One 
evidently so (you can ask kloeri and robbat2), for the other you have 
to trust either me or ask the other Paludis devs.

Danny
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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