On 08/15/2016 12:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> 1) Stabilization is a simpler and much more formalized process compared to >> normal bug resolution. >> * There is one version to be stabilized. >> * One precise package version > > Can you clarify what this means? Do you mean that at any time only > one version of any particular package/slot is marked stable? > > That seems like it would be problematic for ranged deps. Granted, > those are problematic in and of themselves since they can create > conflicts that are hard to resolve. However, this extends conflicts > between package you might not want to install at the same time to > situations where you don't even need both of the conflicting packages. > I believe he's just talking about a per-bug or per-stablereq basis. So each version gets its own opportunity to have bugs surface or stabilization issues instead of attempting to stabilize a bunch of versions at once.
(Correct me if I'm wrong; I don't see the value of a single stable version for each package and it would create a lot of noise in git log) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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