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Title: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords |
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Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> |
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Posted: 2013-09-25 |
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Display-If-Keyword: m68k |
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Display-If-Keyword: s390 |
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Display-If-Keyword: sh |
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Following discussion [1] and a vote by the Gentoo Council [2,3], |
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m68k, s390, and sh will drop all stable keywords and become |
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unstable/testing only arches. The main reason for this is that |
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these arch teams visibly lack manpower, leading to overall delays. |
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Stable may well be synonymous with outdated here. |
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In a week, the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in the respective profiles |
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will be switched to automatically include ~arch packages. Systems |
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running stable before will update to current unstable/testing then. |
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Afterwards m68k, s390, and sh keywords on all ebuilds will be |
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changed to ~m68k, ~s390, and ~sh. |
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No steps are required from users, however you should be aware |
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of the upcoming changes. |
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2975/focus=2984 |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917.txt |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |