Re: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Any specific procedure to unstable a package? Specifically MythTV.
> While there's a lot of user interest in the package, there's just not
> enough dev help with the package to really keep it up to snuff to what
> could be considered stable. Its woefully behind...

The current unstable package for mythtv was the upstream stable
version only a few weeks ago.  I was contemplating stabilizing it,
although with 0.24.2 out it might make more sense to target that
version.  The current stable version should certainly be removed ASAP
- it contains numerous bugs and some QA issues that have been fixed in
the unstable version.  The only thing the stable version has going for
it is support for more plugins.

If I get a long weekend I might try upgrading to 0.24.2 and getting
that into portage (assuming nobody else beats me to it).
Unfortunately my only mythtv system is essentially a production
system, so I can't really have it down for any length of time.

If we do make mythtv unstable I'd prefer that we not drop versions too
quickly.  If somebody else is able to keep up with the bleeding-edge
versions more power to them, but if the consensus is that the older
versions have to go most likely I'd just start maintaining my own
overlay and abandon the one in portage.  I can really only do a
serious version bump maybe 2-3 times per year at most.

I'm not convinced that going completely unstable is really going to
solve anything, however.  I'd rather have a core of stable
functionality than something bleeding-edge for something like mythtv.
Then again, that might just be personal preference.

Rich