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Bug 160761 - audacious-1.3.0_alpha1-r1 should be hard masked
Summary: audacious-1.3.0_alpha1-r1 should be hard masked
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Tony Vroon (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2007-01-07 20:19 UTC by Steve Warren
Modified: 2007-01-07 22:21 UTC (History)
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Description Steve Warren 2007-01-07 20:19:13 UTC
audacious-1.3.0_alpha1-r1 will not build.  This is alpha software and should not be placed in the ~x86 tree as it will be to unstable for testing for inclusion to  the x86 tree.  ~x86 software should claimed to be a stable product by the upstream maintainers that is being checked for stability in Gentoo.  At times even beta software might be ok for inclusion in the ~86 tree, but alpha software should be M~86.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-07 22:04:03 UTC
Information about the build failure is missing. We appear to disagree about the ~x86 keyword. I have no intention of ever stabling these alpha packages. If anything, these packages will be fully removed if this disagreement is shared by Gentoo developers.
Comment 2 Dan 2007-01-07 22:09:40 UTC
From the devmanual: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html


 ~arch (~x86, ~ppc-macos)
    The package version and the ebuild are believed to work and do not have any known serious bugs, but more testing is required before the package version is considered suitable for arch.

I don't think that alpha software falls under this umbrella.  Alpha software is not believed to work all the way by upstream (or it wouldn't be alpha).  
Comment 3 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-07 22:20:58 UTC
Will be removing developer releases.
Comment 4 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-07 22:21:43 UTC
Developer releases are not appreciated by the community and have been removed from the portage tree. If you want to use them, use an overlay. You will have to await the 1.3 release.