Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords

[Jack Morgan]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:38:57AM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> And committed.
>
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>
> Title: m68k, s390, sh are dropping stable keywords
> Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2013-09-22
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Keyword: m68k
> Display-If-Keyword: s390
> Display-If-Keyword: sh
>
> Following discussion [1] and a vote by the Gentoo Council [2,3],
> m68k, s390, and sh will drop all stable keywords and become
> unstable/testing only arches. The main reason for this is that
> these arch teams visibly lack manpower, resulting in undesirable
> delays.

Please remove the word "unstable" as there are no "unstable" keywords in
Gentoo Linux, just stable and testing. 

> In a week, the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in the respective profiles
> will be switched to automatically include ~arch packages. Systems
> running stable before will update to current unstable/testing then.
> Afterwards m68k, s390, and sh keywords on all ebuilds will be
> changed to ~m68k, ~s390, and ~sh.
>
> No steps are required from users, however you should be aware
> of the upcoming changes.
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2975/focus=2984
> [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917.txt
> [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt
>
>
>
> Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2013, 21:29:35 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> > For general review and improvement, to be committed 2013-09-25...
> > [The summary link [3] will work soon... :) ]
> >


Thanks,
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Jack Morgan
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