On Wednesday 01 February 2006 02:28, Mark Loeser wrote: > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Is there any need for the packages to go into stable without the X deps > > being > > fixed? Why not just open a bug for the package maintainer and mark it > > against > > whatever bug is requesting stabling of that package? Moving something to > > stable that you know is going to be broken within a relatively short > > timeframe seems like a very bad idea... > > We are talking about completely unrelated versions, not what we are touching. > For example, old imagemagick ebuilds sitting around, where the newer ebuilds > are fixed, but old ones are not. We have a security bug open about this > package right now, and having an error about deps in some old version doesn't > really help arch teams at all.
Security bugs are about the only time I can see any urgency. That's not a good reason to completely degrade the error though. A switch similar to --ignore-other-archs that skips certain checks for urgent fixes seems reasonable though. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
