Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> writes: > The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an > earlier version so that it "can receive more testing and get better bug > reports", and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical > or > code quality reason for it to be masked, it's purely a human issue
Though I seem to remember that at the time portage 2.2_rc was masked it was stated to only be a temporary measure to force more people to test 2.1.6 and that the mask would be removed when 2.1.6 went stable - which it has been for some while.
