On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:31:57 -0800 Christopher Head <ch...@chead.ca> wrote:
> Right, of course things can become incompatible—but the distro handles > that by either leaving old enough version of e.g. libraries around > that the latest stable versions of their reverse dependencies don’t > break, or, in exceptional cases (e.g. security), by breaking things > intentionally if necessary, thus telling me that there’s a problem. True, note that upper limits on the dependencies (<cat/pkg-ver) or similar blockers are not always in place; which can make this problematic if the maintainer doesn't catch the incompatible regression, especially since a lot of us run testing and don't look after older or stable packages as much as we would want. > If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always growing, > obviously something has to be done. I just don’t want “something” to > mean “don’t have a stable tree”. The stable tree provides me with a > benefit. If standards have to slip a bit to maintain timeliness, then > I’d prefer a stable tree that’s as stable as practical, accepting > reality—perhaps where users are able to submit reports of working > packages, or where we let platform-agnostic packages be stabilized > after one arch has tested, or various of the other suggestions in this > thread. Just not no stable tree at all. +1 as long as we can find effort and ways to keep it around. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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