Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ryan Hill wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 Jeroen Roovers[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please people, if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. Um... no? One thing that package.mask has always been used for is temporarily masking a package until it can be tested and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-04 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:44:10PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please people, if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. So, no, I'll continue using package.mask for testing just as it always

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-04 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:44:10 -0600 Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 So, no, I'll continue using package.mask for testing just as it always has been. Sorry. As far as i understand, the complaint is not about testing itself, but about providing more

[gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-03 Thread Duncan
Mart Raudsepp [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:06:39 +0300: Of course when that initial testing is done with helping users, the reason could be modified to tell things broke and what the tracking bug is, or unmasked if it works fine with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please people, if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. Um... no? One thing that package.mask has always been used for is temporarily masking a package until it can be tested and then unleashed on