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From: Joseph Jezak <josejx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:07:15
Message-Id: 4AF3929A.30306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by "Petteri Räty"
1 > In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to mark
2 > Java packages stable after testing by at least one arch team. The
3 > probability to find arch specific issues in something like Java is not
4 > so high so I think arrangements like this are acceptable when the arch
5 > teams have problems keeping up.
6 >
7 I do know that for Java stuff, I certainly wouldn't mind if the Java
8 team marked for ppc/ppc64. The only thing that I'd need to know is that
9 it was tested with the IBM JVM since there certainly are differences
10 between that and the Sun one most people use on x86/amd64 and we've seen
11 issues in the past.
12
13 -Joe