On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:09:34 -0600
William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> After the package has been sitting in ~arch for 90 days with an open
> stable request with no blockers that the arch team has not taken any
> action on. We are not talking about randomly yanking package versions,
> just doing something when arch teams are not responsive, and it seems
> that the cleanest thing to do would be to remove the old versions.

Exactly, the common case for stabilization bugs is that stabilization
just happens; as far as I have seen, it is rather rare that another
bug blocks the stabilization bug. At least this is the case for the
common package; as for important bugs, which should be treated with
more care, it is more common for these blocking bugs to get filed.

If the arch hasn't responded for X months; then marking a version
stable oneself on a non-important package should be acceptable, it
doesn't yield any huge problem afaik and isn't that much different.

And for that occasional mis-guess, *boohoo*, the user can just file a
bug; which ironically even happens occasionally for stable packages.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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