-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Joshua Jackson wrote: >> I will have to agree that this change has made it a pain to mark >> anything >> stable. I had 4 out of the 6 I did today bail out because of this. >> I took the >> simple easy fix and removed the check to stabalize the packages I >> needed to. I >> know we have people who want modular X yesterday, but causing >> trouble for dev's >> going about business that doesn't involve the modular problems >> directly is only >> going to cause resentment and frustration to all the teams involved. > > Why is the simple fix not copying over the already fixed > dependencies in the latest ebuild? It's not as if that's a lot of > work. That's the intent of this failure -- to avoid flyby commits by > people when they could just fix the deps (which are already > available in ~arch) while they're there. > > Thanks, > Donnie In the oldest version of the package (as all these were), I don't see much point in the change. They will be removed within a fairly short amount of time. Secondary, you are suggesting that any dev who comes across a modular x problem to fix it..even if this is a direct violation of the guidelines set forth in the documentation? I'm curious as to why you want potentially 200+ dev's to violate it, to push modular so quickly? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
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