[gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

[Darren Kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>]

Quoth the Devon Miller
> You both seem to be arguing about what constitutes stable. And there are 2
> different definitions: stable as defined by the upstream source and stable
> as defined in portage.

Wrong. I am perfectly aware of what "stable" and "unstable" means to portage. 
I _was_ arguing a point based on Alexander's question which I felt was 
ambiguous. Apparently I am the only one who thought it was ambiguous, ha ha, 
stupid me.

The entire rest of that sub-thread was me and Alexander arguing faulty 
premises based on this initial misunderstanding, and it would best be  
ignored by everyone. 

<snip>

> Now, Darren has added a bug for 0.9.3 and a month later, it's still waiting
> to get added to portage.
> His issue is 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 should have been stable by now.

That is an issue, but not one I am losing sleep over, and not one that I am 
arguing in this thread...

If everyone folowing this thread from the sidelines could just read my first 
response to the OP: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/172487

You can see here I explained to the OP that the newer version was not stable, 
but he could access it using "~x86" keyword. I went on to explain that if he 
wanted the latest upstream version he could use an overlay.

Mark my words: I _do not_ think the upstream stable version should, 
automatically or otherwise, be portage's stable version. I never said any 
such thing in any mail to this thread.

<snip>

> I would suggest Darren look through the develoiper list (
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml) for developers
> handling media-sound. Add them to the cc list on the 0.9.2 ebuild and add a
> comment asking that it be marked stable. And ask for the 0.9.3 to be added
> as ~x86

I will try this. Thank you.

> dcm

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