Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

["Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>]

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Paul,

That cleared it up for me, thanks

Jeff.

On 04/05/06, Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Actually the testing keywords are not for unstable packages. If something
> is unstable it must be masked. If we however want to test our packaging
> we put it in ~arch. If something is in ~arch that means that it works for
> the packager, but that your mileage may vary. ~arch may sometimes have
> unexpected problems, especially involving migration from old versions to
> new versions. Actually most time is spent on ~arch, as there is where
> development happens. As a package is seen to be stable, then it gets
> promoted to arch. This is just a change of the keyword. The developer
> then goes on to newer versions of the package.
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> Paul
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> Paul de Vrieze
> Gentoo Developer
> Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
> Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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