Is it possible to get sys-apps/slocate-3.1-r1 stable? it seems to be in the tree without a change for quite some time now according to http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/slocate Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
There is at least one open bug against slocate-3.1 (#133053), which, by the way has not seen any action since December 2006 (!!!). Personally I've been using slocate-3.1 for ages without problems, but marking packages with open bugs stable is against policy.
no it isnt
Quoting from the ebuild policy (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1): "Moving package versions from ~ARCH to ARCH When a package version has proved stable for sufficient time and the Gentoo maintainer of the package is confident that the upgrade will not break a regular Gentoo user's machine, then it can be moved from ~ARCH to ARCH. An indication of the package's stability would be no verified or unresolved bug report for a month after the version's introduction." It's not exactly what I said, but close enough IMHO. Care to explain the difference? I'm sincerely curious.
the policy is not hard, it's left up to maintainers to decide what's best. thus your statement that "marking packages with open bugs stable is against policy" is clearly incorrect.
x86 stable
Stable for HPPA.
ppc64 stable
Sparc stable. The ewarn about rebuilding the database really means it; after you do that, everything works as usual.
amd64 stable
alpha/ia64 stable
ppc stable
All done by Mike, closing
