From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 953541382C5 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8C72E0993; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail101c7.megamailservers.com (mail771.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.81]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70230E0968 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:05:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Authenticated-User: info.sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from [10.0.0.100] ([184.69.242.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail101c7.megamailservers.com (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id w1JI5EeO008625 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:05:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion References: <87371zt86n.fsf@nyu.edu> <4876333.DpMW1yWErG@dell_xps> <87371y71do.fsf@nyu.edu> From: thelma@sys-concept.com To: Gentoo mailing list Message-ID: <3698f8fd-6b1a-c2ff-d204-1f41787b6027@sys-concept.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:05:37 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.5A8B11E2.01F1,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.2 cv=N4tZLy1B c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:117 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=M-8eWYYSAAAA:8 a=qSHEYsf9eHsMigYclS8A:9 a=45kNBi0GerPc6TsU:21 a=seUY9dfXqYVX2cvR:21 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=awip3qkCNhHNWhYHKGPk:22 X-Archives-Salt: 5da59975-0149-4506-8257-b17ad646f8a4 X-Archives-Hash: 88ca3276d62c18ac09129c65540c5ce4 On 02/18/2018 05:50 PM, John Blinka wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: >> >> Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk, >> portage wants me to merge a newish (testing) version of gnucash that >> uses a solid new version of webkit-gtk. I have the new version of >> webkit-gtk, but really want to delay installing the testing gnucash. > > > Looks like gnucash-2.7.4-r1 is now in the stable branch of portage despite > gnucash declaring “This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in > production” (their caps, not mine). I’ve masked it and reverted to > icu58.2-r1 by masking icu-60.2. The older icu allows > webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 to build, and gives me a version of gnucash which > I’ve used for a long time and trust. Not going to upgrade irreversibly to > a version which the authors themselves don’t trust. My 2 cents. > > John It is a good point. Why Gentoo developers marked or allow to mark gnucash-2.7 branch stable in portage when the developers https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml did not mark it STABLE It seems to me one of Gentoo developer is trying to use us a guinea pigs and the UNSTABLE "gnucash-2.7" on us. -- Thelma.