On Sunday, 24 June 2018 19:49:02 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 2:28 PM <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > Since the unstable packages of today are the stable packages of > > tommorrow one needs to bite the bullet (and hopefully this sentence > > is not complete nonsense...I am no native speaker...not at all!) > > Presumably if you're running stable on a host you probably wouldn't > want to be biting the bullet on that particular host. > > In any case, it seems likely that the news item shouldn't have been > displayed to stable users, or should have had instructions pertaining > to who it was targeted at.
Well, on my stable system I went and keyworded mpfr-4.0.1 and mpc-1.1.0-r1, then followed the instructions. I did that because I didn't want to find, later, that I'd been left behind by those versions becoming stable and not remembering the news item. I saw a good chance of inexplicable failures in that case. > Of course, it shouldn't have been displayed for anybody considering it > was never reviewed as required by GLEP 42. Stuff like this is the > reason these are supposed to be reviewed... I'll leave those concerned to wrestle with that one... ;) -- Regards, Peter.
