On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:04:26 +0300 Andrey Gerasimenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the threads. My impression is that the way stabilization > works should be described in a place of high visibility, at least in > the FAQ. I beleive this question will be asked again and again if > new users do not see how "stable" is defined early. If they see the > definition, no questions will be asked. For example, I do not think > that developers waiting for bug reports to stabilize an ebuild is > either wrong or correct. It is just a part of the current > definition of the term "stable". It is described in gentoo docs: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap4 See part "Moving package versions from ~ARCH to ARCH". I agree that this is perhaps not "a place with high visibility". Maybe it should be included into FAQs. Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list