Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> [CC'ing council@g.o as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, 2007]
>
> A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes 
> are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be 
> appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is sufficient public 
> demand, an earlier meeting can be held.
>
> This decission has been made to prevent sufficient precedence for 
> unilateral changes to the tree structure. So far the following package 
> versions are considered illegal:
>
>   media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4
>   media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1
>
> An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has already 
> been removed from the tree.
>
> I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these 
> versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks in 
> advance for this.
>
> Danny
>   

So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and it
be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next meeting.

Danny,

This wouldn't have to be because you have a vested interest in paludis
and paludis does not support this syntax and there happens to be no
reasonable way to support that?
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