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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] mouldering development branches
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:35:01 -0300

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:48:05 +0100
Florian Franzmann <siflfran AT hawo.net> wrote:
> On Mi 2014-03-26 17:15:08 +0100, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
<...>
> > I would like to propose that devel-gcc-4.8, devel-icu and
> > devel-libpng-1.6 be merged immediately into devel-xorg-modular,
> > which can stabliise for a short period and then merge
> > devel-xorg-modular to master.
> I'm all in favour of that. The problem with these branches is not that
> there are any spells that don't build with the development branches.
> The problem is that we don't have a migration path from our current
> master to the development branches. For example, migrating to the new
> version of icu will break lots and lots of installed spells since,
> unlike gentoo, we do not preserve old libraries until they aren't
> needed anymore. In principle, cleanse --fix should be able to take
> care of the situation, however, it fails to do so.

Talking about that... Can't we do like Gentoo does? That would be
interesting.



  • Re: [SM-Commit] mouldering development branches, Ismael Luceno, 04/16/2014

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