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

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

Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 schrieb Seemant Kulleen:
> Hi Danny,
>
> > Look at it from my POV. I only knew about the alsa version at
> > first. I knew it was removed already. Then i learned about mplayer.
> > Ok... i can live with that as long as nothing else in there. Then I
> > learned about transcode and I asked my fellow Council members to
> > cut it.

> I'm not sure I see that as a council issue, to be honest, but that's
> ok.
In my eyes it was a policy issue. Tree-wide policies have to pass the 
council in one form or the other. So why shouldn't Council care here?

> > Besides, the affected maintainers have since then silently and
> > gladly agreed to remove said versions and agree that we should
> > stick to known methods until proper combinations of version
> > suffixes have been agreed on.

> You see, that would have been my first approach, instead of a rushed
> council weighing in.
I just wonder why several people feel attacked by this decission while 
the affected parties have no problem with it.

>
> > Seemant: I'd like to continue to discuss the ways of council
> > decission on gentoo-council rather than on gentoo-dev ML. :-)
>
> Happy to do that, in the general case.  In this specific case,
> however, it's valid here, because the entire thread revolves around a
> rather rash council decision (who knew such a thing was even
> possible?) that affects pretty much all Gentoo developers (and
> prospective developers).
Anybody who attends the regular Council meetings and/or reads their 
logs/summaries knew that this kind of decission is possible.

Danny
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
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