On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:16:38PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > [CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, > > 2007] > > > > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes > > are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be > > appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is sufficient public > > demand, an earlier meeting can be held. > > > > This decission has been made to prevent sufficient precedence for > > unilateral changes to the tree structure. So far the following package > > versions are considered illegal: > > > > media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 > > media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1 > > > > An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has already > > been removed from the tree. > > > > I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these > > versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks in > > advance for this. > > > > Danny > > > > So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and it > be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next meeting. > > Danny, > > This wouldn't have to be because you have a vested interest in paludis > and paludis does not support this syntax and there happens to be no > reasonable way to support that?
Incidentally.... paludis *does* support it. -- Fernando J. Pereda GarcimartÃn 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4
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