Hi all,
I think it's worth to discuss the `behaviour of removing ebuilds from
the tree`.
In my opinion, ebuilds are removed too soon, i.e. if an ebuild gets
updated
the older ebuild gets removed in the same turn. In my opinion, it is
better to
keep the older ebuild around for a while since if there are some bugs
in the
newer ebuild, users are able to downgrade easily.
My suggestion is to set up a guidline similar like it exists for
marking the ebuilds as
stable (4 weeks).
Probably, a time period for removing ebuilds would be nice to have, I
think
2 weeks would be reasonable if there aren't any known bugs of the
newer ebuild.
Of course, if the newer ebuild has bugs, which do not exist in the
older ebuild
the older ebuild should still be kept to let the user be able to
choose, which version
they want.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Cecilia
PS: other topics to be discussed `Not to modify ebuilds which are
already in the tree... even if masked` what do you think?
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