From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:15:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vpwt3yj.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906071738.52416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:38:52 +0200")
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
> The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an
> earlier version so that it "can receive more testing and get better bug
> reports", and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical or
> code quality reason for it to be masked, it's purely a human issue
Though I seem to remember that at the time portage 2.2_rc was masked it
was stated to only be a temporary measure to force more people to test
2.1.6 and that the mask would be removed when 2.1.6 went stable - which
it has been for some while.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-07 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-06 12:03 [gentoo-user] can fix preserved-rebuild William Kenworthy
2009-06-06 16:23 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-06-06 17:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-06 21:10 ` walt
2009-06-06 21:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-06 21:50 ` Dale
2009-06-07 1:28 ` William Kenworthy
2009-06-07 15:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-07 15:21 ` walt
2009-06-07 15:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-07 16:15 ` Graham Murray [this message]
2009-06-07 16:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-08 12:25 ` William Kenworthy
2009-06-08 12:32 ` William Kenworthy
2009-06-08 12:53 ` Neil Bothwick
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