Thanks for the clafirification, I will forward the bump request to the related gentoo maintainer then.
2012/6/16 Mitch Harder <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Sławomir Nizio > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> hello, >>> >>> some time ago I provided by means of bugzilla two ebuilds for the >>> latest versions of nvidia-cuda-sdk and nvidia-cuda-tooklit >>> (https://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3371 and >>> https://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3372). >>> I didn't get any feedback so I'm wondering if I did something wrong >>> submitting them there: is anyone here interested in reviewing them and >>> possibly willing to add them to the main repository? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Pierangelo Terzulli >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for your submission. However, Sabayon uses ebuilds from Gentoo >> for both nvidia-cuda packages and usually if an ebuild isn't maintained >> in one of Sabayon overlays already, a version bump is made only when Gentoo >> makes it. >> >> More ebuilds forked from Gentoo means more maintenance load on the small >> team; also a Gentoo developer who maintains the package usually knows it >> better so he's able to do the work in a proper way, and so on. (I don't >> say your work isn't OK - I haven't checked it much, and also I cannot test >> it on my hardware - I'm just speaking in general.) >> >> It can be bumped if there's an extra reason behind it or if someone >> from the team wants to take care of it. Your bug report is fine. >> >> Regards >> > > I'm sort of in the same boat. They look like interesting packages. > But I'm always reluctant to pick up packages when I'm probably not set > up to test them. > >
