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| As an example of it can go wrong, there was an arch that marked gtk+-2.4 |
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| stable before the maintainers arch & effectively broke the building of |
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| over a dozen packages in the tree. The maintainers were keeping it in |
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| ~arch to get those issues fixed, but with their QA hurting ways the arch |
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| got their users into trouble for no reason whatsoever. In smaller ways |
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| this has happened numerous times now with different arches doing it. |
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No need to dance around what arch that was...I don't mind. In my |
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defense, I would like to point out that (I'm pretty sure) both gnome 2.4 |
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and 2.6 were still ~mips at that time. The breakage was limited to |
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gnome 2.4 packages if I recall correctly, which a user would not likely |
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have been using unless he/she stable keyworded them in an overlay. |
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Also, mips is a very experimental arch (especially from a kernel |
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standpoint) with perhaps fewer users than many of the other non-x86 |
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archs. Of the userbase, I don't think many are using the ~mips keyword, |
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and even fewer of those running X. Hopefully this will change once we |
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get a few more supported configurations running a stable kernel. I |
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believe spyderous mentioned in a previous message in this thread that he |
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weighs risk of bumping a version or keywording something based on the |
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total number of users it will affect. I also tend to share this view. |
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Thus, I don't mind taking the risk of bumping a package stable before |
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the "indicator arch" does so, if I perceive some benefit from it. |
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Steve (geoman) |
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