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On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:38:20AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Well, if they make no choice then the maintainer deletes the package. |
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> That's what you want, right? The package would only stay around if |
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> the minor arch asked them to. If they don't do that, then nobody can |
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> complain. |
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> However, I don't think it makes sense to enact changes like these |
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> unless the minor arch teams actually speak up about wanting the |
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> changes. If they don't I'd be inclined to just clarify that |
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> maintainers are welcome to trim old stable versions on minor archs if |
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> the bugs are older than n days. |
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That's exactly what my proposed patch to the devmanual says [1]. It only |
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applies to packages when the arch team does not respond to a stable |
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request within 90 days after they were added to it. |
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The problem is, this isn't just a clarification. It is a change of |
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policy. The current policy is that a maintainer is not allowed to delete |
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the last stable version of a package on any architecture under any |
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circumstances [2]. |
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William |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500014 |
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[2] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html |
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