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On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:22:09 +0200 Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> |
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| On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:39:44PM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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| > At the moment, the only way for a package maintainer to mark a |
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| > package stable is to mark it stable on a "real" arch. Creating the |
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| > "maintainer" arch solves this very problem. |
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| Yes, but please don't call it the "maintainer" arch. This will |
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| confuse our users and it'll be quite difficult to document. |
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The users will never see it. Tell them "it's for developers only". |
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| MAINTENANCE="~x86" # Maintainer uses x86, package not deemed stable |
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Yick. We can't use ekeyword then. |
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| And it keeps backwards compatibility. |
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Sticking extra entries in KEYWORDS is backwards compatible. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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