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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:51:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42338E75.1030602@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110590519.10977.1.camel@localhost>

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Olivier Crête wrote:

>uOn Sat, 2005-12-03 at 01:01 +0100, Ernst Herzberg wrote:
>  
>
>>dev-util/esvn:
>>
>>0.6.8-r1 was masked, and has some crazy bugs, that this stuff is not usable 
>>for an 'enduser'. If you select an 'working directory', the last character of 
>>the path get lost. You have to create a workspace, select there a working 
>>directory, add the last character by hand....
>>
>>OkOk, as long as this stuff is masked, no problem. BUT: Upstream has released 
>>a new version with this bug fixed. Why went the buggy version stable? And the 
>>new with the bug fixed version is masked? That make no sense to me.
>>
>>Can somebody explain that?
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe you should ask MrNess... But he doesn't seem to think that testing
>is important... 
>
>  
>
This package I happen to use at work, I could say I did more than a 
simple test.
Do you suggest that, if this bug is real, I should know about?
Do you understand that tests don't always detect bugs, right?



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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-13  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-12  0:01 [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable? Ernst Herzberg
2005-03-12  1:19 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-12  3:12   ` Ernst Herzberg
2005-03-12  4:08     ` Brian Jackson
2005-03-12  4:20     ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-03-12  1:21 ` Olivier Crête
2005-03-13  0:51   ` Alin Nastac [this message]
2005-03-13  9:48     ` Olivier Crête
2005-03-13  9:57       ` Alin Nastac

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