On Friday 16 September 2005 03:02 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:48:45 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | > Take it out of package.mask and leave it for thirty > | > (package-dependent) days. If there is a pressing (eg security) > | > reason for it to go to stable sooner than would normally be > | > expected, file a bug and Cc: the relevant arch teams. > | > | I was thinking more like signalling that it shouldn't be stable yet, > | but shouldn't be masked either. > > Well, if it's in ~arch it's a candidate to go to stable after further > testing. If a package maintainer isn't prepared to have a package moved > to stable, they shouldn't take it out of package.mask.
not really ... sometimes you want to keep a package in unstable forever (like the cvs snapshots i make of e17), or until you work some quirks/features out for a new revbump which you would want stable -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
