[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Steven J. Long
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:32:54PM -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 01/11/2012 19:23, Steven J. Long wrote: He's right tho: the topic was Why doesn't your tinderbox work with overlays? Your response was to insult Arfrever and not actually answer the point. _Arfrever himself_ point to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 05/11/2012 07:31, Steven J. Long wrote: Are you really missing the fact that by testing someone's overlay, the package would by definition not be in the tree, and you wouldn't have to file any bugs at all, just (automatically) email the output back to the overlay developer? Which means I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/05/2012 10:39 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 05/11/2012 07:31, Steven J. Long wrote: Are you really missing the fact that by testing someone's overlay, the package would by definition not be in the tree, and you wouldn't have to file any bugs at all, just (automatically) email the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/11/12 12:00 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: 1) Over time, unstable has become too stable (I know, I know). People expect things to work, and nobody wants to break working systems by committing works-in-progress to ~arch. We have p.mask for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2012 12:15 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 05/11/12 12:00 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: 1) Over time, unstable has become too stable (I know, I know). People expect things to work, and nobody wants to break working systems by committing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 05/11/2012 09:15, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: We have p.mask for that, though, so dev's could get in the habit of committing and hard-masking things more, rather than using overlays. Amen. That's what I've been saying for the past week or so, and before as well. Get it in p.mask, so that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 05/11/2012 09:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Being hard masked is a little bit stronger than what I had in mind. I was thinking, no known problems, but it hasn't been tested thoroughly. Users with a death wish could run it, and it might work. That would leave package.mask for known brokenness: