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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:57:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091108175710.49302d71@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911071824.16651.scarabeus@gentoo.org>

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:24:10 +0100
Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@gentoo.org> wrote:

> * Masking beta...
> This masks are good if the software release is KNOWN to break
> previous behaviour or degrade user experience. Otherwise the software
> should not be masked (its TESTING for purpose, not stable).
> Also the maintainer should watch if the testing branch is still
> relevant (why on earth we have masked 4.0.3_p20070403 version of
> screen when newer 4.3 is stable ;]) and remove the branch+mask when
> needed.

I agree with your criticism (i.e. that the mask should not be there,
especially not for "testing" as what the mask does is *prevent* testing
instead of enabling it), but must note that your version sorting
algorithm appears to be flawed: pkg-vX_pY (for patch level) is always
greater than pkg-vX.


Regards,
     jer



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-08 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-07 17:24 [gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies Tomáš Chvátal
2009-11-07 18:03 ` William Hubbs
2009-11-07 18:33   ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2009-11-07 18:56     ` William Hubbs
2009-11-07 19:03     ` Duncan
2009-11-08  0:08       ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-11-08  1:25         ` Duncan
2009-11-08 23:46           ` Vlastimil Babka
2009-11-08  1:26         ` Kent Fredric
2009-11-08 15:13       ` Christian Faulhammer
2009-11-09 13:17         ` Duncan
2009-11-08 12:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Volkov
2009-11-08 16:57 ` Jeroen Roovers [this message]
2009-11-08 17:20   ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-11-11 16:43     ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-11-11 17:11       ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2009-11-11 21:54         ` Jeroen Roovers

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