From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HgRJA-0003FX-Gt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:08:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3OK6qX1014594; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:06:52 GMT Received: from nameserver1.mcve.com (nameserver1.mcve.com [216.155.111.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3OK1frD004832 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:01:41 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.55] (shop.monetra.com [216.155.111.10]) by nameserver1.mcve.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8611118087 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:01:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <462E6224.6030302@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:01:40 -0400 From: Doug Goldstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 References: <200704242111.44663.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <462E5796.8080707@gentoo.org> <200704242150.21013.kugelfang@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200704242150.21013.kugelfang@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: daa444e2-61f7-478b-9548-ca9d480b4e2f X-Archives-Hash: 436142af3454079a228a456f56c9463f Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Doug Goldstein: > >> 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. >> > > No, that's not correct. 1 council member can't do that. During the > council meeting of March 8th 2007 the Council decided that at least 2 > members are necessary to act for the whole Council. > > FYI this decission has been made by 3 Council members, which have been > Robin, Bryan and which has been initiated by myself. Further, QA > indicated approval prior to this council decission. > > >> 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? >> > > Doug, > > a) Paludis could support arbitrary combinations of multiple version > suffixes the same way as Portage currently support this. The Paludis > developers chose not to, because > > b) A very large number of possible suffix combinations aren't sensible. > Instead of implicitly allowing every possible combination, one should > explicitly allow the sensible subset and explicitly disallow the rest. > > c) I try very hard to seperate my interest and work on Gentoo and the > Council and my interest and work on Paludis. > > Personally, I would appreciate if you got back to me before you make > claims as the ones i just responded to. Both claims are wrong: One > evidently so (you can ask kloeri and robbat2), for the other you have > to trust either me or ask the other Paludis devs. > > Danny > QA being spb, who is a noted paludis developer.... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list