Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 02:28, Mark Loeser wrote: > > We are talking about completely unrelated versions, not what we are > > touching. > > For example, old imagemagick ebuilds sitting around, where the newer ebuilds > > are fixed, but old ones are not. We have a security bug open about this > > package right now, and having an error about deps in some old version > > doesn't > > really help arch teams at all. > > Security bugs are about the only time I can see any urgency. That's not > a good reason to completely degrade the error though. A switch similar > to --ignore-other-archs that skips certain checks for urgent fixes seems > reasonable though.
I don't really see why anyone that is marking an ebuild stable needs to have
a fatal error because an older version of that package isn't ported yet. We
are perfectly capable of mentioning this on the bug so the maintainer can fix
it later :) A flag to ignore it will make me, and probably other archs, happy
though.
Thanks,
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