2012-10-29 23:07:15 Diego Elio Pettenò napisał(a):
> c) try to get betas and rcs in asap _but masked_;

>=sys-devel/gcc-4.7.0, whose usage is required to trigger some problems, is already package.masked.

> d) call for a tinderbox run (I can do that with a quick email);

One of major problems with this tinderbox is that it cannot be used to test packages against newer versions of packages
present in overlays [1], but it can be very useful. E.g. before release of Python 3.3.0 I had tested about 200 packages
against snapshots of Python 3.3 found in an overlay. Besides founding problems in about 10% of packages, I also found
some regressions in Python 3.3 [2], which were later fixed before final release of Python 3.3.0.

> In this case all should have stopped at a) since libreoffice-bin has a
> =49* dep, for obvious reasons.
> 
> Since there was no hurry of security issues to get icu-50 in, I don't
> see why this was all forced through -50_rc without giving time to the
> _one_ package that was using an older version to update.

Maintainers of app-office/libreoffice-bin always build it against stable versions of its dependencies,
so maintainers of app-office/libreoffice-bin can be asked to build it against ICU 50 after stabilization of ICU 50.

[1] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/08/fixed-in-overlay-read-not-fixed
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue15925
    http://bugs.python.org/issue15926

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