port upgrade outdated order

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to think like that, until I reported this kind of issue in one of
> Qt's component. It was not very delicately pointed out to me that it's
> common practice to build things without previous versions present (cf. the
> Debian and Ubuntu buildbots).


Yes, because every system is a Linux box where you can spin up a pristine
Docker instance in order to be able to do anything at all (the systemd
vision, last I heard --- why fix *any* bug when you can Docker it and
pretend it doesn't exist?).

It's very common because it's the lazy why-fix-my-bug-when-I-can-fake-it
(and therefore so *must* everyone else) solution. I'm surprised Arch and
Gentoo haven't already raised a stink over it.

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