On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:20:29 +0000 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | the policy i consider a no-brainer, fix TEXTRELs
So... Say libfoo is a library that decodes files in the foo format. Say also that libfoo-2.1 is currently marked stable, and does not contain any TEXTRELs, but only supports foo files using the foo-1 format, which is rapidly becoming obsolete. Then, if libfoo-2.2 comes along, and introduces support for the rapidly becoming very widely used foo-2 format, should libfoo-2.2 be held back from being marked stable purely because of a TEXTREL? What about if, instead, libfoo-2.1 contains a security bug that is fixed by libfoo-2.2? What about if, instead, libfoo-2.1 has a nasty bug that will cause it to lose data under certain circumstances? See, any policy on TEXTRELs will have to be *very* carefully worded to avoid having people think that they're something important... Otherwise we'll end up with broken packages being left in stable simply because newer versions contain TEXTRELs. Don't overhype the problem -- make it clear that it's a "would be nice" issue, or else you'll encourage even more superstition than we have already... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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