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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] alpha, ia64, ppc, ppc64, sparc developers, need your attention
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 12:08:01
Message-Id: 1401624467.790.21.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] alpha, ia64, ppc, ppc64, sparc developers, need your attention by Markos Chandras
1 El dom, 01-06-2014 a las 13:00 +0100, Markos Chandras escribió:
2 > On 06/01/2014 12:33 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > El dom, 01-06-2014 a las 14:18 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
4 > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505962#c6 is blocking
5 > >> stabilizing the new virtuals, and thus, converting the tree, and
6 > >> also blocking stabilization of the already converted packages
7 > >> (gnome seems to have some) pending for 3 months already
8 > >>
9 > >> thanks, samuli
10 > >>
11 > >
12 > > This makes me wonder about the real status of some of this arches.
13 > > I know that now we will probably see how Agostino goes ahead and
14 > > does all the work (that is nice and I really welcome his work
15 > > trying to keep this arches in shape), but also makes me thing if
16 > > makes sense to keep this agostino-dependency for this arches more
17 > > and more time. What will occur if he is not around sometime? :/
18 > >
19 > >
20 >
21 > We have been through the same discussion not so long ago and the
22 > result was to start dropping the ~m68k, s390 and sh to ~testing[1]. In
23 > the thread that started it all[2] there has been no resistance about
24 > dropping the keywords of these arches on $subject and here we are
25 > again discussing the problem. Here[3] you can see council's decision.
26 > I quote here just for fyi:
27 >
28 > "In summary:
29 > - m68k, s390, sh: will be dropped to unstable keywords globally.
30 > - alpha, ia64: Maintainers can remove older stable versions according
31 > to the "package-by-package" proposal.
32 > - sparc: No action.
33 > "
34 > So unless I make a mistake, you are free to start dropping alpha, ia64
35 > to ~arch. For ppc,ppc64 and sparc it's probably best to resurrect the
36 > old thread and possible have add it to the agenda for the next meeting.
37 >
38 > [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88183
39 > [2] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/277054
40 > [3]
41 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt
42 >
43
44 The problem arrives when even core components like udev takes so long to
45 be handled :/ (and situation would be much worse if Agostino doesn't
46 have time to make his mass stabilizations... well, each time I report a
47 stabilization bug that affects me I cross my fingers expecting ago has
48 enough time to handle them ;))

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