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* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
  @ 2014-01-15  1:23 99%               ` Tom Wijsman
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From: Tom Wijsman @ 2014-01-15  1:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: mjo; +Cc: gentoo-dev

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:11:24 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > 
> > This is under the assumption that the user knows of the state of the
> > stabilization worsening; if the user is unaware of that change, the
> > "could have done anyway" might be less common and first something
> > bad would need to happen before they realize the worsened
> > stabilization.
> > 
> 
> If I don't realize it, it ain't broke.

So, you're going to wait for corruption, a security breach or something
along those lines to happen first?

Corruption is what stabilization of consistent dependencies can
prevent, rather than relying on a >=... dependency too much. Security
is what prevents security bugs from remaining present. And so on...

If you don't realize it, it ain't fixed.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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2014-01-14 21:37     [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy William Hubbs
2014-01-14 21:57     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 22:33       ` William Hubbs
2014-01-14 22:43         ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 23:11           ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15  0:47             ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  1:08               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  1:11                 ` Michael Orlitzky
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