It doesn't justify not committing the fix to stable either. Certainly, it is not clear to anybody starting out that it is a cosmetic bug. My point is that it wasn't tested and it is not stable (although it is functional).
Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ciaran McCreesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable! On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:32:26 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Nothing has worked. However, what I need to know is if there is an | actual process to fix this. If not, the patch needs to be commited to | "stable"(x86) ASAP or the current version of portage in stable needs | to be revoked as unstable. Why? It's a minor cosmetic bug that doesn't cause any data loss. That doesn't justify making everyone downgrade. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
