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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 22: New "keyword" system to incorporate various userlands/kernels/archs
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:53:13
Message-Id: 20040309185312.GA4055@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 22: New "keyword" system to incorporate various userlands/kernels/archs by Jon Portnoy
1 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:49:05PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote:
2 > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:41:50PM +0100, Olivier Cr?te wrote:
3 > > We could approach this problem from another perspective. Just have -arch
4 > > flags (and +arch flags) for packages which are truly arch specific.. And
5 > > for the rest, a package could not be marked stable unless it has been
6 > > tested on all arches. Maybe using a set of tinderboxes..
7 >
8 > Am I reading this right -- you want to create a bottleneck where an
9 > application can't be marked stable on an arch that may need it to be
10 > stable unless it's also ready to be marked stable on all of the 10
11 > architectures we have?
12
13 Great idea! Let's ask the Debian folks (still) waiting for Sarge how well
14 that works.
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