-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 05:36, Alec Warner wrote: > > 3) Maintainers (and upstreams) are not always responsive. The bug > was opened in February and wasn't really worked on until recently. > It is a bit of surprise all this talking for a bug that went unattended for 9 months isn't it? O:) It is like people want open bugs and rotten packages around :).
> When you are making a treewide change like a lib upgrade you do > have a to pick a point where 'enough' people have upgraded and you > just break (or mask in this case) everything else. If the folks > want the package in the tree they can fix it; thats the whole point > of masking (providing a notification and a fix-it interval.) This is why the packages is masked now. But of course people don't bother reading masking messages and they think that masking == removal. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOk+70AAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCWNYP/R5hptjfjUku8vutJ5ptTiXY HEf3N3rJtZmg6CgM1kLwRoGeCxiM1iiy7AC1chYa+hlgxx4iDYS3iMUaKaQRupZu PSLbZFWn06F7SzeujqGb5YdCBlF5Evoyswe/lxXlr60qyfyu2vCH+C3Ly8VughQp FafI096uWm3JlxbEW1R6Bvz+TtV37FSVDWx44Hqmu6IqTwuq70tfO3V5zOGjSePR 4Af9RSK/t/+MU2f3Jn3M9dlSVJG1EzMjmLB5x3ItFANUU0kjQYe0rbz6ezpL0nb8 AWGIaHelLSLQowBICCUpmigVPoZx39oJIFMVmzqZTEOVkrjmxmeimPw3qR/oPyFn ySlFoVahr+IXGzh2jW+EKacVio4lPSelj19uWLY104wD2Y+S909OMXnFn2MhrPYx 5RHvrMQEYXE3lb1AZxy4+Hf5up4LNZnTTwQ/IERUNqENIwJNTOxHtmGAiZxD+Jlb u2GXURnV3/zI5Dffvk3P/fQjFRCZukakmPkYh9K/pYCjjN7Q4n1d/XqKjk9neo46 PrfcO0PTxRYvETq/JOB9YORT9+n4oL0RVp7qNgaZEQII/xxJDxIy55DXiPAHoTjU ZumWmmzUiK9ceJPHiVKU5tNPImv7n6pNvzuiM96qMMkyydzd+TnGLSbqo+6e56qY AH/tWodh81mNCuc+/szf =BPvB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
