Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> I noticed a general tendency to close bugs affecting stable before > pushing the fix to stable. > Right. > The idea is that if you only fix in ~arch, you risk a serious and > _known_ regression in stable, which could be easily avoided. > As already detailed by others, most of the time these bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> I noticed a general tendency to close bugs affecting stable before > pushing the fix to stable. > > One recent example is , > but there are more. Not about the general question, but about this specific bug... I never really expected the Calligra

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:01 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Agreed. I'm talking about compile errors or crashes here. I've really > seen arches stabilizing packages with known problems, just having closed > bugs because "the fix is in ~arch". We might already be on the same page, but I think th

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 5/12/12 6:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:34 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." > wrote: >> The idea is that if you only fix in ~arch, you risk a serious and >> _known_ regression in stable, which could be easily avoided. > > How can you have a regression in stable if stable has th

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:34 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > The idea is that if you only fix in ~arch, you risk a serious and > _known_ regression in stable, which could be easily avoided. How can you have a regression in stable if stable has the bug already? A regression is when you have a st

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 12-05-2012 a las 12:34 +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió: > I noticed a general tendency to close bugs affecting stable before > pushing the fix to stable. > > One recent example is , > but there are more. > > The idea is that if you only

[gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
I noticed a general tendency to close bugs affecting stable before pushing the fix to stable. One recent example is , but there are more. The idea is that if you only fix in ~arch, you risk a serious and _known_ regression in stable, which could be