[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Keywords policy

[Ryan Hill]

Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:26:19 +0100
> "Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@g.o> wrote:
>
>> No, we didn't because the whole thing is p.masked for a reason. It,
>> KDE 4.0.1, is broken crap that should not yet be re-keyworded.
>
> OK then. and I am not going to cross-post this to -dev@, btw: why the
> hell did you decide to put broken crap in the tree? It should never have
> left your repository, it seems.

It's package masked and unkeyworded, which is a big hint that it's under 
development.

> If you still wonder why I started rekeywording for HPPA, then let this
> be the final answer. It was no fault of mine - I did it on purpose. No
> keywording error - I was going to finish all the dependencies if you
> hadn't asked me not to (because by then you were claiming KDE team
> "reserves" the "right" to drop keywords at will and without notifying
> arch teams, as opposed to current policy. The repoman bug / missing
> feature left a few stones unturned, sadly, but I was going to do all of
> KDE 4.

You're still not getting this.  The KDE team did not _want_ these ebuilds 
keyworded.  That's why they _weren't_ keyworded.  That's why there was no bug 
filed, saying "hey we dropped these keywords" because they _did not want_ you to 
add them back yet.  When the ebuilds were of sufficient quality that they could 
be tested, then a bug is filed, the ebuilds are tested, and then re-keyworded.

Maintainers have every right to drop keywords if they think changes to their 
package are drastic enough to require re-evaluation by an architecture team. 
It's how we keep big fat calamity from befalling our users.  Yes, they need to 
inform the arch teams to re-add their keywords.  No that request does not need 
to come immediately if they're not ready for it.

A simple rule to go by:  Dropped keywords on package.masked packages are not 
dropped keywords.  If that package comes out of package.mask and still lacks 
your keyword and no bug is filed, then yes, then you have a legitimate beef.

This is simply the way things work from my point of view as a maintainer and a 
arch dev for a oft keyword-dropped arch.


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