On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:59:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | baselayout is an example, any package can be used here (although not | many are as critical) | | i'm saying that the maintainer may have a certain idea of when the | package is ready for stable (a target feature set, working out | certain quirks, etc...). your current hard view does not allow for | that. for example, i had an arch maintainer one time mark bash-3 | stable before base-system was ready for it (readline, baselayout, | etc... were going to be stabilized together). i smacked them hard | for it, but if we went with this hard view, it would have been | perfectly acceptable behavior. -mike
There is nothing in this view that says "consulting the package maintainer is not part of the stable decision-making process for arch teams". -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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