On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:17:48 -0600 Donnie Berkholz <dberkh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 21:33 Sat 28 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote: > > I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When > > you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least > > one previous ~arch version around, so if people run into major > > issues they can at lease try the previously installed version to > > determine if it's your package at fault. Recent version bumps to > > two libraries have completely trashed a package I maintain, and the > > only option for my users is downgrading them to stable, which > > requires downgrading several other libraries. In both cases, the > > previous ~arch version, which worked fine, was removed. > > > > Personally I always try to keep two versions in ~arch and one > > stable, excepting security or other major bugs that render an older > > version useless. > > Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old > {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30 > days), you should be safe pulling it. As a user, I'd very much like that to be policy. It would remove the main reason I stay away from ~ versions, so I'd use more of them and file more (hopefully useful) bug reports.