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Bug 514612

Summary: www-servers/nginx-1.6.0 version bump
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: zamabe <zamabe>
Component: [OLD] ServerAssignee: Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) <dev-zero>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: bugs
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description zamabe 2014-06-23 04:39:38 UTC
The 1.7 mainline is in the tree, but the 1.6 stable (release-line?) is not yet there.
Comment 1 Johan Bergström 2014-06-23 23:12:06 UTC
(In reply to zamabe from comment #0)
> The 1.7 mainline is in the tree, but the 1.6 stable (release-line?) is not
> yet there.

Hi. As of 1.7 we will only provide the latest upstream recommended series (also called mainline). For people looking for older ebuilds, we've set up an overlay. You can read more here: https://github.com/gentoo/nginx-overlay.

This overlay will hopefully be available through layman shortly.

Even if you don't agree to our reasoning, we unfortunately won't add older versions. There were a few technical arguments (avoiding slot:ing for one) which together with upstream recommendation motivated our decision.