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 1Hy3a9-0007Kg-9y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5CAPDUD024400; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:25:13 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5CALQ8f018152 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:21:27 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5C08D30C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:52:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04834-10 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:52:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from posidon.ferdyx.org (posidon.ferdyx.org [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2F28D305 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:52:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by posidon.ferdyx.org (nbSMTP-1.01-cvs) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) ferdy@gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:21:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:21:18 +0200 From: "Fernando J. Pereda" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree Message-ID: <20070612102118.GD4738@ferdyx.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070612100139.GA4738@ferdyx.org> <871C5811-7E89-43B9-A81D-F29BDC3CF31C@cilly.mine.nu> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="g7w8+K/95kPelPD2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871C5811-7E89-43B9-A81D-F29BDC3CF31C@cilly.mine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: 2d713684-bf4c-4794-a578-c255c7eb55f8 X-Archives-Hash: bd5fbc865c5dbe9702b01d709655f00b --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:14:37PM +0200, cilly wrote: > On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: >=20 > > I think that setting arbitrary guidelines that try to rule every > > situation is just *plain* wrong. > > > > Some of the packages I maintain are better removed when a new > > maintenance version is released. And I plan to keep it that way :) > > > > As usual, deep known of the package you are removing and common sense is > > way better than guidelines 'to rule them all'. >=20 > I see myself very often upgrading and encountering a bug which > requires me to downgrade. But a downgrade isn't easily possible since > the last stable ebuild has already been replaced by the newer and > buggy one. The bug must not be in the ebuild itself, sometimes a > version-upgrade (upstream) brings new features and new bugs. > Sometimes it is nearly impossible for a package maintainer to get an > overview of possible bugs, may be upstream bugs, or typos. Well, if maintainers can't properly follow upstream development they should probably seek help in their maintenance job. - ferdy --=20 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimart=EDn 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4 --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGbnOeCkhbDGC9KNQRAh1+AKCO/vDkXpYE9Q8nCEREYQNoE6i7VwCfaALh atxLQ0/FpAE6qlsXqyhYRcg= =w2ca -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list