From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpPdy-0000bm-GE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:52:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AD7FE08AC; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.goodpoint.de (tori.goodpoint.de [85.10.203.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9608E08AC for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: rbu) by mail.goodpoint.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CC210B4E7; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:52:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Robert Buchholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:51:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <200909201746.25278.Arfrever@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200909201746.25278.Arfrever@gentoo.org> 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="nextPart1896785.XOvGuRbeaY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909201852.06072.rbu@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e12ed716-4129-442e-b8f5-fffcdc06283c X-Archives-Hash: caa73f2fc014b5eb1459421179a45b1b --nextPart1896785.XOvGuRbeaY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 20 September 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start > requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed > due to the fact that some other packages don't work with Python 3. Of course they can. That is exactly the reason I am using a distribution=20 (instead of LFS), because I expect maintainers of packages to=20 coordinate and define a working set of packages for me to use. This=20 includes holding back updates, fast-tracking updates, forward- and=20 backward-porting. Automatisms in updates and blindly following upstream=20 removes that extra value we are there to provide. Robert --nextPart1896785.XOvGuRbeaY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABCgAGBQJKtl21AAoJECaaHo/OfoM5uWIP/jZiOeNELBuWliKn6xHJJkEZ LKktdJ3iXl055MooWGP7G6BMdHlyBl+4nx3m4Uma4GlA09XznnIc0kE989N0dbxd 0orybg0+SzUblbi+KGG6abVtU21n/fp3bSIHybUI8QsN4FZqgg1JKpXNuDVDNKDc zQEe4RlC++kJJTZ18MFN+BsdLNgnXmPV2pbh8/Q2EXeUnR9gNkhhwA1QA5FbWtoN 3XFVec20fxn3lEJIj+MWiey1Vo63gWeErANxIddvzeA8obLPUckVr3xP8QoNRz/f DDkcSNltK0vGaY7B5SSu7Q90ZmOdy8GlHcUSikqJm03aA0wDJkbDIRNXHT6oJ9Ns gh3lAbR/tozREPqBbkvg0c+xfgsXMpmcmMQjVaX0zoDTN3L31CDf0bcH+TAng2bx hcbEEZZX+ZRYnVfmTa60TVvVKBnV1NxSJlafzbSSQBwWm7Ty1IcV+2p9Qp7f70yY byAmmggpvE4oFc3daBDR1LhH827jeO+RZhKh2VoPm8ClxU1qgxc8p3XeIo7g+oDR 28DcDP7nHjrkqtFKHxbWN6QW3q64+Svvt7mHqeM6C9xzIZiMYZanoWoUgqSLwVr9 JKcz1lN0Io30NLJmshOI5Q0KCVYDH78GDm19T5Hr3nRCtJuRCCRni6+wVK1c3IAw a8vSgG/AVBODKljBwrkr =4b92 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1896785.XOvGuRbeaY--