El 21/09/11 18:39, Pandu Poluan escribió:
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> On Sep 21, 2011 9:13 PM, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)"
> <klond...@gentoo.org <mailto:klond...@gentoo.org>> wrote:
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> > Well deprecated version removal tends to happen because we are not going
> > to aim for those versions stabilization AND there is a newer version
> > available AND upstream tends to ignore bugs happening on older versions.
> >
>
> Aha, thanks for the explanation.
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> I do agree with the stance to not push for stabilization if older
> versions will not be supported by upstream. However, since -r13 is by
> definition 5 revisions later than -r8, and to the best of my knowledge
> has no show-stopping bugs (at least, none on my systems -- touch
> wood!), IMHO -r13 shouldn't be removed. Just remove the intermediate
> revisions.
>
There is a show stopping bug
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378731 :P
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> Especially since going from 2.6.x to 3.x exposed a LOT of package
> breakages (e.g., packages hard-coded to expect exactly /^2\.6/), I'm
> still not comfortable enough using 3.x. Maybe later in December.
>
> > What this means for you is that we are not going to force you to upgrade
> > but if something fails you are in your own ;)
> >
>
> Fair enough. But now I have to do additional acrobatics for new
> systems ;-)
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Well you can always use an overlay I think the package wasn't removed.
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> > PS: Next time come by #gentoo-hardened we won't bite you, I promise ;)
> >
>
> Proomiiiise...? (in the voice of a little girl)
>
Well just don't get to near of Aleister :P

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