Attachment 367028 Details for Bug 319927 – Improve wording on when to use the package.mask file

[patch] Improve wording on when to use the package.mask file

0001-package.mask-Improve-wording.patch (text/plain), 1.89 KB, created by Markos Chandras (RETIRED) on 2014-01-05 01:01:18 UTC

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>From cf7c43ce71579c640aa43232fff8e2d16c2645e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
>Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 00:57:00 +0000
>Subject: [PATCH] package.mask: Improve wording
>
>Initial patch by Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>
>
>X-Gentoo-Bug: 319927
>X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319927
>---
> profiles/package.mask/text.xml | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/profiles/package.mask/text.xml b/profiles/package.mask/text.xml
>index ef57b28..3749cc0 100644
>--- a/profiles/package.mask/text.xml
>+++ b/profiles/package.mask/text.xml
>@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@
> <body>
> 
> <p>
>-The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask packages or certain versions
>-of packages. This is often used when adding certain experimental (either in
>-ebuild or upstream terms) packages to the tree. The format is described in
>-<c>man portage</c>.
>+The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask packages or certain versions of packages. In general unstable/development releases should be masked since such series are targeted on developers or power users who follow software development. This releases are not supposed for general consumption (distributions).
>+But depending on which upstream we're dealing with things may be different and the maintainer may decide to use such release. In such case, please, try to get in touch with upstream developers before pushing unstable/development versions
>+into ~arch.
>+Remember that quite often it's not hard and is highly desirable to
>+backport required fixes into stable release instead of using unstable/development releases distribution wide. It's good practice to reference reasons to use unstable/development release in ChangeLog and/or ebuild itself.
>+The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask such unstable/development releases. The format is described in <c>man portage</c>.
> </p>
> 
> <p>
>-- 
>1.8.5.2
>

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