Doug Goldstein posted on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:46:32 -0600 as excerpted: > Any specific procedure to unstable a package? Specifically MythTV. While > there's a lot of user interest in the package, there's just not enough > dev help with the package to really keep it up to snuff to what could be > considered stable. Its woefully behind and I'd just be happier to drop > the current stable and bump everything as unstable.
I'm not a mythtv user and know nothing about its technical side, but FWIW, I'd suggest that if this is done, a news item, would be appropriate. And if there's nothing extremely pressing about it, I'd suggest a 60- or 90-day instead of a 30-day lead time, because as rich0's post suggests, mythtv users in general likely aren't the most update- happy folks around. (And FWIW, I'm ~arch by default anyway, so obviously don't have a problem with dropping stal^Hble keywording in general. I understand why people want stable but that's what debian stable or redhat/scientific/centos, etc, are for. IMO, cater to our strengths as a rolling release and leave the stal^Hble stuff for those with that as a strength. More time to fix issues at decently current upstream stable that way! =:^) Of course, I don't expect that idea to go anywhere in general, but FWIW... and I /am/ the one suggesting a news item for those that /are/ stal^Hble, with a 90- day lead-time, even!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
