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From: Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:09:47
Message-Id: 1125957771.14476.25.camel@darksystem
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep by Simon Stelling
1 On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 22:42 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > | I'm asking that you assume any support burden that you create. It
4 > > | only seems fair.
5 > >
6 > > Stabling a package which is not in packahe.mask is only a support
7 > > burden if package maintainers are abusing ~arch.
8 >
9 > I absolutely agree with you, the only point is:
10 >
11 > People are abusing ~arch in the real world, and we're not yet living in an ideal
12 > world.
13
14 Yes it's true probably we should introduce another keyword for
15 maintainers that is completly unstable. Then the Archs Teams keyword the
16 packages.
17 Most of the people don't understand that ~arch is a testing keyword and
18 it's not stable. Fortunatly most of the bugs we get are from ~arch and
19 not from stable arch.
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21 Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o>
22 http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod
23 Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical
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