В Птн, 29/10/2010 в 17:51 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò пишет: > Il giorno ven, 29/10/2010 alle 12.12 +0400, Peter Volkov ha scritto: > > > > Please, hard mask beta versions. To fix this bug it's not hard to > > backport patch (patch referenced in bug) and this will give us good > > version to stabilize. Really don't abuse beta versions. > > > It vastly depends how "beta" the beta version is, so it's up to the > maintainer deciding that.
Yup. But then, please, tell what were the reasons for this decision (in ChangeLog or inside ebuild). If there are no reasons - hard mask it. Also speaking about this specific package: I've maintained this package quite long time and I'm following upstream mailing list and I've never heard from upstream it's safe to push betas on all users. -- Peter.