Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ryan Hill wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 Jeroen Roovers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please people, if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. Um... no? One thing that package.mask has always been used for is temporarily masking a package until it can be tested an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-04 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:44:10 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 > > So, no, I'll continue using package.mask for testing just > as it always has been. Sorry. > As far as i understand, the complaint is not about testing itself, but about providing more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-04 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:44:10PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 > Jeroen Roovers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please people, > > > > > >if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. > > So, no, I'll continue using package.mask for testing just >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-03 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 Jeroen Roovers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please people, > > >if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. Um... no? One thing that package.mask has always been used for is temporarily masking a package until it can be tested and then unleash

[gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-03 Thread Duncan
Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:06:39 +0300: > Of course when that initial testing is done with helping users, the > reason could be modified to tell things broke and what the tracking bug > is, or unmasked if it works fine with