On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. posted on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:10:42 -0400 as > excerpted: > > > It seems odd that upstream will release a package. Just for > > downstream to consider it not stable. Did it get messed up during > > packaging? Did it get messed up by the distro? The whole lag thing > > does not make sense for Gentoo. Sooner released and tested on > > Gentoo. Sooner bugs can be founded, reported back to upstream, etc. > > Speeds up development. That is Gentoo's role in FOSS IMHO. > > Not so odd. Gentoo's arch-stable has a different meaning than > upstream's stable. As a long time gentooer I'm surprised you weren't > aware of this already. If upstream does a new release, fixes bugs. Gentoo marks a previous release stable. It is stabilizing a package with issues fixed upstream. That does not make sense. Gentoo issues maybe good, but not upstreams. I maintained packages like iText which used to have a 30 day release cycle. Up till recently Jetty was about the same. As a end user, I needed the bug fixes. Not the delay for it be marked stable. I stopped running Redhat long ago due to time to vet updates. I run Gentoo for the speed of being able to package and test out new code. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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