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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:40:25
Message-Id: 5dda2be5e07a706edc6d2b6df4e938a08f684cfd.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival by "Andreas K. Hüttel"
1 On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 13:37 +0300, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
2 > Am Freitag, 10. April 2020, 09:58:37 EEST schrieb Michał Górny:
3 > > 1. 'Broken' status was removed, as it is redundant to profile status.
4 > >
5 > > 2. State names were changed from 'testing' and 'unstable' to 'degraded'
6 > > (broken stable tree) and 'testing' (pure ~arch) to avoid confusion.
7 > >
8 >
9 > Back in time there was also the idea to use this file to indicate security
10 > support of an arch. The suggestion was to introduce another column, but I
11 > found that rather horrible.
12 >
13 > So a better idea would be to introduce an additional status "security",
14 > designating "stable with security support".
15 >
16 > (Acts in every other respect exactly like "stable".)
17 >
18 > What do you think?
19
20 I suppose it'd work for me. I'm not sure if we have any use case for
21 having this data machine-readable but I guess there's no harm in it,
22 and better add it now than adjust tools later.
23
24 --
25 Best regards,
26 Michał Górny

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