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On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Sergey Popov wrote: |
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>> 3. Also, another interesting question has come up in this thread, that of |
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>> non-binary packages. Should we give maintainers the option of |
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>> stabilizing them on all arch's themselves? |
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> 3. If code is interpreted rather then compiled, it does not matter that |
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> it is properly ported on minor arches. I knew dozens of examples with |
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> Perl and Python packages(not sure about Ruby, but Hans said that it |
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> happens with it too). So, i would not treat such packages differently. |
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OK, let's be conservative. Python and Perl scripts may break on some |
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arches (I'd say it's a rare exception, perhaps 1%, but still). But what |
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about |
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dev-java/java-sdk-docs |
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dev-db/postgresql-docs |
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sys-kernel/linux-docs |
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dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-docs |
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app-xemacs/general-docs |
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dev-util/kdevelop-php-docs |
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dev-util/gnome-devel-docs |
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app-vim/phpdocs |
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gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs |
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gnome-extra/gnome-getting-started-docs |
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dev-php/smarty-docs |
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dev-python/python-docs |
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dev-python/cheetah-docs |
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app-doc/php-docs |
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app-doc/root-docs |
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app-doc/geant-docs |
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app-doc/blas-docs |
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app-doc/lapack-docs |
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app-doc/gnucash-docs |
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app-office/abiword-docs |
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dev-lisp/hyperspec |
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sys-apps/man-pages[-*] |
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and maybe others? They contain no scripts which can possibly break. I'd |
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say they should be keyworded on all arches as soon as they are keyworded |
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on the first arch; the same goes for stabilization. I'd include also |
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packages containing only TeX/LaTeX code - TeX behaves identically on all |
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arches, this was and is its main strength. Also, probably, |
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python/perl/ruby interpreted scripts *which don't load extra libraries* |
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work identically on all arches not in 99% of cases but in 99.99% (0.01% is |
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for cases when the interpreter is broken on a given arch). |
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Andrey |
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