> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:31:10PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: > > > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some > > > random php/perl library that's known to work. > > > > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring > > the arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do > > you care about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on > > their arch. > > If the pkg isn't a leaf node, you wind up keeping older and older > versions lingering across multiple pkgs to keep it from breaking > stable.
Oh no, I mean you stop filing stable requests for the arch *period*. So it just means you have to keep the last stable release for that arch around. > > This is assuming that it's still heavily frowned upon to remove the > only stable version available for a non-dead arch... > ~harring
