On 9/23/2011 10:56 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/16/11 2:35 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> On 15/09/11 16:13, David R. Morrison wrote: [] >>> But there are also lots of unmaintained things in unstable, many >>> of them very old, so I think it would be dangerous to just dump >>> everything to stable. I like Alexander's approach. >> >> Why would this be more dangerous than the current situation, where >> almost everybody is using the unstable tree anyway? Do you know >> anyone, except some innocent newbies, who is really using the >> stable tree? > > That's more of a question of "Do we bother to keep this old, broken > stuff or update it?" In principle it's probably just as easy to > decide on that after a rollover.
The 10.5/unstable buildworld from back in August 2010 took care of a lot of brokenness in unstable. And those packages that still remain broken are not necessarily the ancient abandoned ones, but instead many belong to people who are still in communication with the project. Here's the list of the buildworld results. Important: this is from August 2010. A lot of things marked broken there have been fixed in the past year. http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2010-08-14/out/maintindex.html I think the primary thing with a lot of downstream effect that has gotten updated since then was Qt4 and I know it broke a number of things, so it might have a wider effect than is known. If MaxBuildJobs gets turned to on by default in the next Fink release, that will probably introduce some more brokenness, but running a new buildworld should find them. I do _not_ have the ability to run a buildworld again for the foreseeable future. However, if anyone has a machine with available CPU cycles (expect 2-3 weeks), I can easily walk them through the process of getting it going. Hanspeter ps. the earlier 10.5/stable buildworld (in March?) showed about the same proportion of broken packages, so just stable was not necessarily stabler. I think this was one of the good things to come out of the new 10.7 tree. It'll be stable on 10.7 ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
