Bug 273852

Summary:	Why do you stabilize only development releases of media-libs/mesa?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Malte E. <maltee>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Malte E. 2009-06-12 11:38:01 UTC

currently, only mesa-6.5.2-r1 and mesa-7.3-r1 are stable for most architechtures. Why? They are both labeled development releases by the mesa project.
mesa-7.0.3, 7.2 and 7.4.x which are released as stable by the mesa project are still masked unstable by Gentoo.
Is there any reason for this? If not, I would strongly suggest to always try to have stable versions of mesa as stable ebuilds in the tree.
btw. I am using mesa-7.4 and I don't have any problems so far.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-12 15:19:12 UTC

Did you actually take a look at mesa's 7.3-r1 ebuild? Did you see that there are about 60 patches in it? Do you realize it's actually much closer to 7.4 than you might think?

Do you also think we don't know all this?

Bottom line, we'll stabilize what we have _time_ to stabilize.

Thanks

Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-16 20:16:05 UTC

bugzie

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-16 20:16:34 UTC

now we have stable 7.5.1/2 which is stable release.

Closing with proper resolution