On 25/01/2022 07.49, Joonas Niilola wrote:
On 24.1.2022 20.37, Florian Schmaus wrote:
Hi Joonas,
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.
I am skeptical that a news item would be the right thing to do
First, I doubt that the package mask was needed, as I already wrote.
Hence unmasking the package is nothing that the users need to be
notified about.
Secondly, we never did a news item for Bitcoin in the past, even on
consensus changes. So I want to prevent creating a precedent that puts
us in a position where people expect us to do one for every Bitcoin
protocol consensus change.
Finally, the news item would state the obvious: Newer software versions
may include changes that you, as a user, may want to review before
upgrading.
That said, I wouldn't object if someone published one. Please let me
know if you plan to publish one. Otherwise, I would unmask Bitcoin in
one week since no fundamental objections have been raised so far.
- Flow
