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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:29:04
Message-Id: 201309192129.42051.dilfridge@gentoo.org
1 For general review and improvement, to be committed 2013-09-25...
2 [The summary link [3] will work soon... :) ]
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6 Title: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords
7 Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o>
8 Content-Type: text/plain
9 Posted: 2013-09-25
10 Revision: 1
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12 Display-If-Keyword: m68k
13 Display-If-Keyword: s390
14 Display-If-Keyword: sh
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16 Following discussion [1] and a vote by the Gentoo Council [2,3],
17 m68k, s390, and sh will drop all stable keywords and become
18 unstable/testing only arches. The main reason for this is that
19 these arch teams visibly lack manpower, leading to overall delays.
20 Stable may well be synonymous with outdated here.
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22 In a week, the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in the respective profiles
23 will be switched to automatically include ~arch packages. Systems
24 running stable before will update to current unstable/testing then.
25 Afterwards m68k, s390, and sh keywords on all ebuilds will be
26 changed to ~m68k, ~s390, and ~sh.
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28 No steps are required from users, however you should be aware
29 of the upcoming changes.
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31 [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2975/focus=2984
32 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917.txt
33 [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt
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37 Andreas K. Huettel
38 Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde)
39 dilfridge@g.o
40 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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