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Bug 622950

Summary: app-misc/screen-4.6.0 version bump
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Sven Wegener <swegener>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: hydrapolic, shell-tools
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/log/?h=v.4.6.0
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Description Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev 2017-06-28 19:22:13 UTC
Hi!

Today screen-4.6.0 was released with updated unicode support and other yummy features. Please update. Thanks!
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-06-28 22:06:25 UTC
commit 5bf92546915bab53a18c9d795d4f5cd1af42069e (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 29 00:05:57 2017

    app-misc/screen: Bump to version 4.6.0 (bug #622950).

    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.2
Comment 2 Tomáš Mózes 2017-06-29 08:21:00 UTC
It's nice to have the latest, but we are trying to communicate this to our users:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zero-day_bump_requests

And we are not giving them a good example ;)
Comment 3 Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev 2017-07-11 12:35:51 UTC
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zero-day_bump_requests

Is this a Council approved policy? That's the first time I hear of it as of globally used policy. The Bugzilla Guide[1] doesn't even have a link to it. Really, we can't expect our users to read random wiki pages before posting a bug.

Frankly, I see nothing wrong in reporting version bumps early. A very good example is screen-4.6.1 which fixes very serious regression in 4.6.0 making screen unusable within su/sudo sessions. But due to this questionable policy I have to wait for another day before reporting this update.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Guide
Comment 4 Tomáš Mózes 2017-07-12 10:37:09 UTC
I don't know if this approved by the council, but this was part of the bugzilla guide, seems it was removed just recently:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Bugzilla/Guide&diff=642706&oldid=642700