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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking virtuals stable
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:29:06
Message-Id: 46499588.5000003@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller kirjoitti:
2 >>>>>> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >
4 >>> I could not find any official guidelines for keywording of virtual
5 >>> packages.
6 >
7 >> They are keyworded as any other packages. You can't make them stable
8 >> if they have ~arch only dependencies. When one provider is stable,
9 >> they are fine to go stable.
10 >
11 > Yes, I think this part is clear.
12 >
13 > The point of my question was more if the usual rules apply, i.e.:
14 > keywording and stabilising only by arch teams; wait one month before
15 > the package can go stable. Which seems not to be current practice for
16 > virtual packages. (And makes no sense anyway, IMHO.)
17 >
18 > Ulrich
19
20 The month is not set in stone. About who marks them, it's probably best
21 to get the opinion of the arch teams. I don't think they will object to
22 normal developers marking them. Arch teams: what do you think?
23
24 Regards,
25 Petteri

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Marking virtuals stable Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>