On 5/5/13 6:20 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 04 May 2013 19:49:03 +0200 > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> (Also, why do a revision bump and leave >>> the stable revision unfixed?) >>> >> but this: >> because automake-1.13 is _not_ stable an because there are enough >> changes to risk to break it? > > The fix changes a single line in a source file in a predictable way.
I trust maintainer's judgement. We have Gentoo developers who are strongly opposed to making _any_ changes to stable ebuilds. I'm in fact leaning towards that group. And we also have developers who see no reasons not to change stable ebuilds in "trivial" ways (the question remains what is trivial and what is not, and how trivial changes can still break things). The way I see to resolve this - which I think is accurate description of what's happening - is to let maintainers handle the fixes in the way they think is best (after all, they are most knowledgeable about the package in question). Anyone else is free to file a stabilization request and do his own testing - in fact, I also support stable not being too far behind ~arch. Paweł
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