On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:30:56 -0400 Mike Pagano <[email protected]> wrote:
> We hammered out a policy sometime in the past that if you add a new > version for the reasons you did and remove the stable ones (that have > security issues) you can do an auto stable. > > I have not gone through the commit log to see what happened but here > is an easy example. > > You know the stable version 3.8.4 has a sec bug. > You have a minor point release that fixes this. > > You remove 3.8.4, add 3.8.5 and auto stable for any arch that had a > stable keyword for 3.8.4. I know this thread is about vanilla-sources. But in the context of gentoo-sources this would mean we could do a revision bump with the security patch and auto stable it? That makes a lot of sense. Haven't thought about that, I'm going to do that right now to cover the minor arches that do not have a newer major release stabilized yet. > This should be written down and if it's not that's probably on me as I > am the only kernel person (i think) that was involved in the decision > and is still around. Yes, I was unaware of this approach, discussion and decision; I'm not sure if any other kernel person is still active. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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