Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matti Bickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How's that? I agree that this timely response clause will mean ion-3 > > will never go stable. That's the only thing i could envision to be a > > policy violation. > > Right, and packages that aren't aiming for stable eventually shouldn't > really be in the tree at all.
Point taken. Tbh, i don't think allowing ion to remain in ~arch would be a big deal though. > A larger issue, though... It requires some way of pushing updates to a > user who hasn't synced for >28 days. The license explicitly makes a exception for a user who hasn't updated or is without net connection, demanding the new version to be shown at next install/upgrade cycle after the sync. > If upstream release a new version that has a serious bug, Gentoo would > be required to include it as the most visible package within 28 days, > even if it is completely unusable. In that case, i will provide a patch or pull the package, if upstream disagrees. However, if it's a critical fix (security), i trust upstream to release a new version asap. On that note: the QA warnings have a patch with gentoo and will be included in the next upstream release. I intend to handle any other fix the same way, and upstream has not spoken out against this. > If he doesn't want to hinder distributions, get him to fix his licence. > The way it is now makes it impossible for distributions to do their job. We all agree it's retarded. However, i can't change the way it is. > > In general: i don't think forking is an option. I won't be > > maintaining a fork myself to begin with. > > Probably true, from a Gentoo perspective. If there's a significant ion > userbase, someone else will do the work. There's already someone doing the work for gentoo. Look at bug #136077, which is, tbh, one of my main motivators to work on that package. I just feel that letting (contributing) users down would be kind of a shame. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred
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