From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCeaZ-0006I4-R3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:19:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04347E054F; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95556E054F for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811718D306 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:25:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Hyqr2bTV-Djg for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2298D305 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:25:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:18:51 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20080109171851.0077b35d@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <47850053.9070700@gentoo.org> References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <54551.192.168.2.159.1199365359.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080109121309.GA14454@ferdyx.org> <50574.192.168.2.159.1199888711.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080109152734.GA6181@ferdyx.org> <47850053.9070700@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/0BFk3NrHyjmIGIegIFpzZoF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: dfe340cf-18b4-49f3-a6c8-3cb584e8a027 X-Archives-Hash: 5ad5a66bc3c9648fc92540a2456407c2 --Sig_/0BFk3NrHyjmIGIegIFpzZoF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:11:47 -0500 Richard Freeman wrote: > If an ebuild meets the time criteria above and there are no technical=20 > issues preventing stabilization, then the maintainer MAY choose to=20 > delete an older version even if it is the most recent stable version > for a particular arch. ...and as soon as they do, everyone gets hit by pages and pages of repoman output, and users get royally humped. Developers doing this is by far the most common cause for people getting hit by the repoman thing. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/0BFk3NrHyjmIGIegIFpzZoF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhQH996zL6DUtXhERAkNaAKCpZGCbwPvGpESRJK7MKGYbm+LJSwCfRg4u DPNrr9wvYK+e+vEy9hLQeTQ= =aAUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0BFk3NrHyjmIGIegIFpzZoF-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list