Am Dienstag, den 17.08.2010, 10:50 +0400 schrieb Roman I Khimov: > В сообщении от Понедельник 16 августа 2010 23:35:59 автор Khem Raj написал: > > IMO the newest version in a recipe should always be default preference > > this way we can > > stabilize recipe upgrades quicker. This also means a wider testing > > before pushing a new recipe > > DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" makes it to escape the testing. > > Well, consider Perl, for example. Making 5.10.1 a default preference would > break binary packaged perl modules built for 5.8.8, so technically some > massive PR bump (most probably DISTRO_PR) is needed when updating to 5.10.1. > Forcing distro maintainers to do that is not nice, IMO. > > Although the way it is now Perl 5.10.1 seems to be rarely used, which is also > not nice. Probably, there is no way to solve this problem for everyone. With > D_P it's not used much, removing D_P is asking for "YOU BROKE MY BUILD!!!" > love messages from random corners.
What about removing `DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"` and have the distributions not wanting it pinning to the old version? This could be done after a period of time after the push and an announcement to the list asking what distribution prefers what and make that change in one commit. Thanks, Paul
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