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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:33:03
Message-Id: 201407261832.01411.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status by William Hubbs
1 Am Samstag, 26. Juli 2014, 18:20:11 schrieb William Hubbs:
2 > I know I'm replying to my own message, but I do have a concern about
3 > this that I want to ask about.
4 >
5 > When a stable request is filed for a package, it is filed for all
6 > architectures which have the ~arch keyword for the package and are
7 > marked stable or dev in profiles.desc.
8 >
9 > If an arch wants to stay marked stable or dev but only stabilize a
10 > subset of packages, I think it is reasonable to drop that arch's
11 > keywords from packages they decide not to stabilize rather than move the
12 > keywords to ~arch. That makes it obvious that we shouldn't file stable
13 > requests on that package for that arch.
14
15 I'd say the decision should be made by the arch team, not by the package
16 maintainer.
17
18 Means, arch teams can drop keywors in packages, but normally stabilization
19 goes ahead as usual and requests are filed. Whether they are then honoured is
20 another question.
21
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23
24 Andreas K. Huettel
25 Gentoo Linux developer
26 dilfridge@g.o
27 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>