On Sunday 04 September 2005 22:53, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I tend to think that's fair. At least in my view, the goal is not to > minimize the importance of package maintainers, but simply to separate > package maintainance from tree maintainance. That's right. I think this is good, as a maintainer. What we actually lack now is a way to "suggest" a "candidate stable". For example, maintaining libtorrent, I found a point where libtorrent/rtorrent worked fine on am64 and ppc, but crashed in some situation on x86, because of a conjunction of -fomit-frame-pointer and exception handling. I refrained from editing the ebuild stable on amd64... so I just added the filter-flag on another version and considered that as possible x86 stable at that point.
the ~x86 ebuilds were working, without tinkering with them, but not "stable enough" for the stable tree anyway. Giving an advice on what to marking stable is probably useful. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)
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