On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:48:38AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:05:08 -0500
> "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Yes, making the newest versions never available because the old
> > > versions sink all your time really stops progress to a dead halt.
> > > 
> > 
> > Your logic isn't flawed here, it's entirely missing.  If version Y is
> > stable on all arches but one, and that version is still using version
> > X that doesn't affect any of the other arches at all.
> 
> Can this be proven? Why are maintainers like WilliamH upset about this?
> 
> Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/90063

I was mostly upset because of the appearance of inaction by the arch
teams. In my specific case, it wasn't the arm guys I was talking about [1].
arm was stable within the first month of adding to the bug.

I was very concerned because of how long this bug sat in the stable
queue with no action being taken, especially since other important
packages depended on it.

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.dgi?id=487332