From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H2aLw-0006IZ-DA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:42:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l04LcdDc020662; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:38:39 GMT Received: from mail20c0.megamailservers.com (mail20c0.megamailservers.com [216.251.36.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l04LYaq9017827 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:34:36 GMT X-Authenticated-User: sdibb.knightsbrg.com Received: from [192.168.1.241] (64.50.56.200.ptr.us.xo.net [64.50.56.200] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail20c0.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l04LYV4w012878 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:34:34 -0500 Message-ID: <459D72E7.1050206@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:34:31 -0700 From: Steve Dibb User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061110) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable References: <459D686C.7050304@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <459D686C.7050304@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e3f719b3-c771-4c95-a303-ee84e459e66b X-Archives-Hash: adbc4bb9130a369725c2c91ba0a373c4 Steve Dibb wrote: > Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: >> Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 >> for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or >> Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the >> process described)? > They need to be in the tree for at least 30 days, no bugs, and if > someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test > it, and then a dev will keyword it stable. > Oh, and I forgot .... all the dependencies should be marked stable as well. I would actually encourage users to find and file stable request ebuild bugs. Just make sure you post emerge --info along there in the bug. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list