Re: [gentoo-dev] New QA policy suggestion: Disallow "live-only" packages

[Jason Zaman]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 09:10:01AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 07:13 +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> > I'm suggesting a new QA policy to disallow any "live-ebuild-only
> > packages" being hosted in ::gentoo.
>
> I'm with you on this though I think it should be relaxed to disallow
> only long term presence of pure live packages.  It's fine to add a live
> ebuild first for a month or two if you're still working on something
> (just like it's fine to add a masked package).  However, it's not fine
> to leave things like this for years.
>
> That said, maybe the policy should cover 'long-term masked packages'
> in general.  See below.

I agree with this. long term is definitely not good, but I typically add
the live ebuild to test first before I do the real ones.

SELinux packages specifically I have a script which handles bumping
all of them properly by copying the -9999 to the current as I cut a release.
So to add a new policy, I'll add the -9999 ebuild a while before.
The aim is obviously on the order of days but sometimes ENOTIME so it
might be a while longer.

Thanks,
Jason