[Rock-dev] PROPOSAL(s): fixing recurrent breakage on the rock package sets

[Janosch Machowinski]

The reasons against 2 are still valid. So it is not an option
from my point of view. So either it is 1 or we leave it the
way it is and hope that it just works in the future.
Greetings
     Janosch

On 12.12.2011 10:52, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> The rock package sets are shared among the next, stable and master
> users. This scheme was based on the idea that people that would commit
> on these package sets would "know what they're doing". I.e. would have read
>
>      http://rock.opendfki.de/wiki/WikiStart/Toolchain/Flavors
>
> Since it does not seem to be the case, I would propose two "fixes":
>
>    1. make the package sets "curated", i.e. have only a few select people
>       that are allowed to change these package sets. Others would have to
>       propose patches to the rock-dev mailing list
>
>    2. branch off the package sets when we update next and stable.
>
> The original rationale for avoiding (2) is that, since we all share the
> same package set definition, users of next and stable can also compile
> packages that are only on master. We thought that it was critical in
> order to make this master/next/stable scheme work.
>
> Thoughts ?


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