On 24.1.2022 20.37, Florian Schmaus wrote: > I think it is time to unmask the currently masked Bitcoin versions. The > mask was added in Juli of 2021 [1], with the mask's commit message > indicating that unmasking is planned for November 2021. > > I doubt that the mask was ever needed in the first place, as it was > intended to prevent automated updates of Bitcoin in Gentoo. However, > Gentoo has no unattended upgrade mechanism. Instead, the user explicitly > triggers all updates. > > As this has already caused a little bit of friction, I'd like to get a > feeling of the community's view on that. > > - Flow > > 1: > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d0bbc4dcc33927cbf0ca27a054c430f6866ed72e > >
Publishing a news item 2-4 weeks prior wouldn't cost much for us, I feel like just to make sure it'd be the right thing to do. (that only gets printed for people with bitcoin* installed) -- juippis
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