Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords

[Samuli Suominen]

On 23/09/13 16:08, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 23/09/13 15:52, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>
>>> Because I've seen some commits today for reverting the mentioned
>>> KEYWORDS to ~arch in some ebuilds I'm not sure if everyone is aware that
>>> the arch status is set using profiles/profiles.desc and as I'm writing
>>> this, the mentioned arches are still 'stable', not 'dev'
>>> No matter what the news item or whatever says, only profiles.desc counts
>>
>> That's a thing that was never quite clear to me. Should there be
>> a one-to-one correspondence between an arch marked stable in
>> profiles.desc (i.e. having at least one profile labelled as stable
>> there) and the same arch having stable keywords?
>
> of course...
>
>> There is at least one example for an arch that is only dev in
>> profiles.desc but used to have stable keywords (sh), and another arch
>> where it's the other way around (amd64-fbsd).
>>
>> Ulrich
>>
> i'm a bit confused, why do you think sh is not an stable arch?
> it's still an stable arch like m68k and s390 is... until someone changes
> those lines as per council's vote.

ah, scratch that, got it now -- vapier already started downgrading the 
'sh' status earlier, before the council's vote by changing the profiles.desc