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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: Gentoo ppc AT <ppc@g.o>, Gentoo ppc64 AT <ppc64@g.o>, Gentoo alpha AT <alpha@g.o>, Gentoo sparc AT <sparc@g.o>, ia64 <ia64@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:09:34
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=EDwxoR81FJaKDO6ahmP5hmX2D74Cdt6+guKmrGuxJcA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches by Pacho Ramos
1 On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > The current policy of maintainers dropping keywords after 90 days is
4 > simply not applied because it leads up to that maintainer needing to
5 > kill himself that keyword and ALL the reverse deps keywords
6
7 A published script might ease that, especially with the move to git
8 (where that could be done in a single commit).
9
10 Another option is to just allow the keywords to be dropped without
11 fixing the reverse deps on those archs in these circumstances, though
12 that can be messier for users.
13
14 --
15 Rich

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