Thomas Cort wrote:
What package(s) are going stable in 1 week? I have no clue what you are
writing about since you didn't mention it in your e-mail. I did a
quick search and found the following 6 packages which have a version
2.6.18:
gentoo-sources-2.6.18
linux-headers-2.6.18
suspend2-sources-2.6.18
usermode-sources-2.6.18
vanilla-sources-2.6.18
Sorry about that. I was referring to gentoo-sources, which is really the
only truly supported kernel (excluding some arch-specific ones).
You also neglected to mention which architectures are going stable. Are
all arches going stable at the same time (in 1 week)? Will you still
go ahead with the stable marking if http://bugs.gentoo.org/148429 is
not resolved?
x86 and amd64 immediately, and assuming they don't have showstoppers,
ppc/ppc64/sparc usually follow up real quick.
Yes, it will go stable even if some dependencies of bug 148429 are not
fixed. These are *not* kernel bugs, they are bugs in the individual
packages.
However, I don't ignore them, I have already put many hours into fixing
those bugs. I have been through every bug listed there and provided
fixes/workarounds to all of them. I expect to have to spend even more
time chasing up maintainers of the unfixed packages there.
This is becoming a real problem for me as I'm having to waste excessive
amounts of time on every kernel release fixing bugs in packages which
are nothing to do with me. I'm considering dropping stable keywords from
repeat offenders, but really there aren't any of those: external kernel
packages are almost guaranteed to break every once in a while, and we
simply have a large number of these packages which aren't given much
attention by their maintainers. Any suggestions here are appreciated.
Daniel
P.S. The tone of your email didn't offend me, but that's probably
because I completely agreed with it. Andrew is certainly right in that
we should be really careful about how we write things.
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