On 25/06/14 06:42 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Except if they're locally hard masked ... ;-)
there's nothing we can do if you intentionally break your own system >> In that case I think revbump is not warranted since it should continue >> to work for existing installation and new installations shouldn't be >> any different beside the dependency and not revbumping eliminates some >> needless rebuilts. > > > The point is: Why update silently the dependency versions for a stable > release? Especially in this case, because the now "required" versions are > the oldest stable ones in the official tree. Therefore anyone with the > official tree would have had those anyway. But such an action may affect > anyone with a local tree or overlays. wrong, please read the mail regarding the >= deps in the first place which you have been referred to repeatedly. >> I guess you could fork the needed packages (you can always get older >> versions from cvs) into your custom overlay for old eclipse and maintain >> them there under some slot. > > > That's what I actually did for all "bumped" packages in the end. Effort for > nothing. broken system is broken
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