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 1Hy4bw-0000z6-U8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:32:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5CBUAXi008569; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:30:10 GMT Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5CBP5pD031929 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:25:06 GMT Received: from luna.home (u-6-095.vpn.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.102.95]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo37) (RZmta 7.2) with ESMTP id G014a8j5CBOCXG for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:25:04 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:25:03 +0200 From: Christian Faulhammer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree Message-ID: <20070612132503.1f4dfa48@luna.home> In-Reply-To: <466E772F.6010807@thefreemanclan.net> References: <20070612100139.GA4738@ferdyx.org> <466E772F.6010807@thefreemanclan.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary="Sig_rJAV_xOGQnimo/lRweIyD=x"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-RZG-AUTH: hXn+rC1arvT7Lf9I/zKDqjrgIkrokD1Qxy5bIqfbp9I10BMNL35Kum+fVbT8+ijLtsxDwFC5oA== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-Archives-Salt: 085caddf-f666-42de-9097-0631474c2187 X-Archives-Hash: 2eb8f161d8f172a1f9bef45c62d31888 --Sig_rJAV_xOGQnimo/lRweIyD=x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Richard Freeman : > One thing that I noticed is that in many cases there are multiple=20 > testing versions of a package available, and one stable version. So, > if you run unstable you can pick and choose, but if you're running > stable (which in theory should be the target audience gentoo aims > for) then you get your choice of only one. That is not by purpose. Most people clean-up a package when stabilisation round has been done. So I must say clarify my first statement: I think it is a good idea to have old stable versions in the tree, but that should be the choice of the dev in the end without strict rules. V-Li --=20 http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.faulhammer.org/ http://www.gnupg.org/ --Sig_rJAV_xOGQnimo/lRweIyD=x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGboKPNQqtfCuFneMRArH8AJ9aCHouG9vXd47IyFhZcZiksB96/gCgmdD5 oj2ykfuui+XgtWH9joMGlHE= =t+4e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_rJAV_xOGQnimo/lRweIyD=x-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list