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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:09:57
Message-Id: 52403D56.8060707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 23/09/13 15:52, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >
4 >> Because I've seen some commits today for reverting the mentioned
5 >> KEYWORDS to ~arch in some ebuilds I'm not sure if everyone is aware that
6 >> the arch status is set using profiles/profiles.desc and as I'm writing
7 >> this, the mentioned arches are still 'stable', not 'dev'
8 >> No matter what the news item or whatever says, only profiles.desc counts
9 >
10 > That's a thing that was never quite clear to me. Should there be
11 > a one-to-one correspondence between an arch marked stable in
12 > profiles.desc (i.e. having at least one profile labelled as stable
13 > there) and the same arch having stable keywords?
14
15 of course...
16
17 > There is at least one example for an arch that is only dev in
18 > profiles.desc but used to have stable keywords (sh), and another arch
19 > where it's the other way around (amd64-fbsd).
20 >
21 > Ulrich
22 >
23
24 can't believe it was like that for amd64-fbsd and nobody noticed before,
25 fixed that.
26
27 i'm a bit confused, why do you think sh is not an stable arch?
28 it's still an stable arch like m68k and s390 is... until someone changes
29 those lines as per council's vote.

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