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From: Joseph Jezak <josejx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:39:28
Message-Id: 4C122055.3010307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy by Pacho Ramos
1 >
2 > Hello
3 >
4 > Let my explain the problem and my suggestion to handle it better (at
5 > least from my point of view) with an example:
6 >
7 > Sometime ago I bumped bluez version from 4.39-r2 to 4.60, with that
8 > bump, a new and *optional* RDEPEND on sys-libs/libcap-ng was added.
9 > Since libcap-ng was not keyworded in all arches but x86 and amd64, I had
10 > to drop keywords for bluez and open
11 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303527 for handling it.
12 >
13 > From my point of view, I would prefer to:
14 > 1. Mask "caps" for net-wireless/bluez on affected arches, letting us to
15 > keep bluez keyworded.
16 > 2. Open two bug reports as done with current policy: one for keywording
17 > libcap-ng and other to check bluez works ok with it asking arch team to
18 > unmask that USE flag if possible.
19 >
20 > This way to go would have the advantage of letting people running bluez
21 > on affected arches to still get the latest bluez version instead of
22 > still having to run a pretty old (and buggy) one.
23 >
24 > Thanks for considering it
25 >
26 Your preferred method is exactly how (as a ppc keyworder) I like to see
27 these kind of bugs handled. Dropping keywords makes an awful lot more
28 work for us and hurts our users, especially since we're not always very
29 prompt at handling bugs.
30
31 Thanks for bringing this up on the mailing list!
32 -Joe

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