On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:31 AM Joonas Niilola <juip...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Maybe I'm overthinking it due to all the attention bitcoin has received > lately in Gentoo. But yeah, we haven't received any comments or bugs > about the mask so I guess it's fine to remove it finally. I still kind > of do think a news item wouldn't be the "wrong thing to do" either, but > don't wish to prolong this process any further. >
My two cents: bitcoin should work the same as any other package with updates. Any package update could do something you don't want it to do. That's why you have --pretend, and the ability to impose your own masks. Any package can of course issue news but it isn't very typical for packages to issue "release notes" in advance for every single update. Upstream of course often has them, and people who want them can just subscribe to the upstream lists. If somebody isn't interested in following upstream they probably aren't interested in vetting every single release, and I'm guessing that being 2 versions behind on everything is going to cause them and the network more harm than good. If you actually want to participate in some fork of the network I fully support your right to do that, but it shouldn't really be the default behavior of a package (and as I understand it that is basically what happens if you aren't running a version that supports some feature when that feature becomes mandatory/etc). -- Rich
