On Sep 22, 2011 2:54 AM, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" < klond...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > El 21/09/11 18:39, Pandu Poluan escribió: >> >> >> On Sep 21, 2011 9:13 PM, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" < klond...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> 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 >
That's why I put in the words "not on my system" ;-) In fact, my VMs (on XenServer) happily chugs along using a gcc-4.5.3-r1-compiled kernel. With USE="graphite" and some other -f options set in CFLAGS (something related to math=fast and something about loops). >> 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 ;-) > > Well you can always use an overlay I think the package wasn't removed. > Luckily I have been periodically backing-up distfiles and portage-latest, so I can do a personal overlay. :-) >> > 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 Can't you leash him like, you know, Animal in Muppet Show? Rgds,
