On 02/04/13 15:25, hasufell wrote:
bash-3.1 seems to break ebuild sourcing and is blocked in most package
managers. So I was wondering how can it still be stable then or even in
the tree? I'd say mask it with a note that this breaks the shit out of
gentoo, no matter what PM you use. Otherwise, just punt it?
you are referring to people who are assuming everything marked stable in
portage, is stable, when in reality, only the latest stable is?
i've seen bugs like that, mostly closed as invalid by maintainers --
"use latest stable"
some maintainers have removed older copies, some have reverted older
copies to ~arch
imho, going over the tree and marking older stable copies of packages
back to ~arch is just too much work
and we should stick to the "latest stable is the stable" mantra
(i'm not sure if this is even documented anywhere? and propably should
not be? keep it as maintainer specific decision like it's now?)
