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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: "gentoo-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ALLARCHES and the maintainer action(s)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:56:59
Message-Id: 3F2F59B2-11FA-480D-B99F-209F2D6ABE37@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ALLARCHES and the maintainer action(s) by "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov"
1 Sent from an iPhone, sorry for the HTML...
2
3 On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <mva@×××.name> wrote:
4
5 >> So, if an arch developer tests the package(s) on one architecture, he is
6 >> allowed to stabilize/keyword for all.
7 >
8 > And how about the
9 >> some arches rquires additional tests during stabilization, like so: mips*,
10 > arm*, and some more exotic ones
11 > definition in developer manuals? :)
12 >
13 > --
14 > Best regards,
15 > mva
16
17 The ALLARCHES keyword is meant for stuff that is essentially platform-agnostic. Python code shouldn't act any different on arm than arm64 than amd64. Using that keyword on something like ffmpeg would be a bad use of the keyword.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ALLARCHES and the maintainer action(s) "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>