Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-10-02 Thread yac
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:12:00 +1300 Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 October 2013 08:51, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: I agree, but I think the problem is basically that many people consider it impossible for newer to ever be shitty. Even if they are intimately familiar

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-10-02 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2013 06:43 PM, yac wrote: So if you're relying on the presence of filed bugs to give some sort of coverage metric, you're going to be out of luck from time to time. For instance, that fun bug where stabilising a version of libraw broke

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-10-02 Thread Kent Fredric
On 3 October 2013 05:43, yac y...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd be cautious about involving users in this as it very often happens to myself that something breaks, I get mad and then figure it was my own fault (eg. messing with cflags I shouldn't mess with) That does happen from time to time on the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Addition of systemd subprofiles

2013-10-02 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 01-10-2013 a las 21:10 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: Hello This comes from: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481920 as we would like to set some saner (for systemd usage) defaults in a subprofile, that way people could switch to it to inherit the changes more easily). For