Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies

[Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org>]

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:31:10PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
> > > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some
> > > random php/perl library that's known to work.
> > 
> > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring
> > the arch.  If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do
> > you care about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on
> > their arch.
> 
> If the pkg isn't a leaf node, you wind up keeping older and older
> versions lingering across multiple pkgs to keep it from breaking
> stable.

Oh no,  I mean you stop filing stable requests for the arch *period*.   So it 
just means you have to keep the last stable release for that arch around.

> 
> This is assuming that it's still heavily frowned upon to remove the
> only stable version available for a non-dead arch...
> ~harring