On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:17:48 -0600
Donnie Berkholz <dberkh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 21:33 Sat 28 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote:
> > I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When
> > you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least
> > one previous ~arch version around, so if people run into major
> > issues they can at lease try the previously installed version to
> > determine if it's your package at fault. Recent version bumps to
> > two libraries have completely trashed a package I maintain, and the
> > only option for my users is downgrading them to stable, which
> > requires downgrading several other libraries. In both cases, the
> > previous ~arch version, which worked fine, was removed.
> >
> > Personally I always try to keep two versions in ~arch and one
> > stable, excepting security or other major bugs that render an older
> > version useless.
>
> Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old
> {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30
> days), you should be safe pulling it.
As a user, I'd very much like that to be policy. It would remove the
main reason I stay away from ~ versions, so I'd use more of them and
file more (hopefully useful) bug reports.
