* Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting
@ 2005-09-16 19:15 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2005-09-16 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Friday 16 September 2005 03:02 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:48:45 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
>
> wrote:
> | > Take it out of package.mask and leave it for thirty
> | > (package-dependent) days. If there is a pressing (eg security)
> | > reason for it to go to stable sooner than would normally be
> | > expected, file a bug and Cc: the relevant arch teams.
> |
> | I was thinking more like signalling that it shouldn't be stable yet,
> | but shouldn't be masked either.
>
> Well, if it's in ~arch it's a candidate to go to stable after further
> testing. If a package maintainer isn't prepared to have a package moved
> to stable, they shouldn't take it out of package.mask.
not really ... sometimes you want to keep a package in unstable forever (like
the cvs snapshots i make of e17), or until you work some quirks/features out
for a new revbump which you would want stable
-mike
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