On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 12. April 2008 17:33 Jan de Groot wrote: > > At first i don't want to create a bureaucratic monster.-) > > > The first thing I stated isn't actually true though: we can unflag > > packages, which we'll certainly do when people think development > > versions of packages like GTK are newer than the stable version in our > > repository. This happens on a daily basis when GNOME development > > releases are pushed to the FTP for example, or in cases when people > > think gnome-common should be 2.22.0 because GNOME is at 2.22.x (while > > there's only gnome-common-2.20.0 on the upstream FTP). > > I never think about it but as i wrote your lines i think about a comment > filed > as in the bug tracker. So a dev can unflag the package with a comment as > "It > is the actual one" or "Will get updated if package xyz from testing is > ready" > or "The newer one don't compiles because ...". In the third case it is > possible that more people can search for a patch or can contact the dev > from > mainstream and the maintainer of the package don't need to tell the same > even > and even again.
Yes, the thing bothers me is that you see how many times a package has being flaged for quite a long time, but without any feedback from maintainer or devs, which is sad for you. > > > But if this makes more work than it is a help than forget my idea. Agree. > > > See you, Attila > > > > >
