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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> At this point I've made a couple suggestions, and developers have |
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> voiced either support or objections, and raised some good arguments |
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> either way. I'm hoping this email will summarize the three suggested |
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> approaches, their pros and cons, and we can eventually converge on a |
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> single solution. |
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> Proposed solutions: |
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> I. "stable" keyword |
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> II. "marked keyword" indicates maintainer's arch |
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> III. first keyword marks maintainer's arch |
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> IV. <maintainernotes> in metadata.xml |
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> Personal leaning: |
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> I like solution II, "marked keyword", best because it clearly |
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> calls out the maintainer's tested arch(es). |
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> I would like to hear feedback so that we can make a choice, do the |
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> necessary steps for implementation, and bring about a positive QA |
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> change in the portage tree. Hopefully along with an improvement in |
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> the package/arch-maintainer relationship :-) |
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If I understand II (which I missed or misread in the first wave of these |
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notes), it says something like "A keyword of '+amd64' means that 'the |
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maintainer believes that this package is a candidate for stable, and it |
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is in fact stable on amd64, which is where the maintainer tested it." |
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(And, I suppose, in an unusual situation, the maintainer could use |
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just 'amd64' to mean "For critical reasons this has to be stable on |
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amd64 even though I the maintainer am not all *that* confident." In |
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this case, the maintainer would be wearing ar architecture hat.) |
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If my first sentence is close to correct (everything up to the |
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hypothetical), my preference is also solution II. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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> Regards, |
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> Aron |
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> Aron Griffis |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc) |
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