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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild bumping policy wrt KEYWORDS
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:55:56
Message-Id: 1093495787.9888.14.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild bumping policy wrt KEYWORDS by Jason Wever
1 On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 22:22, Jason Wever wrote:
2 > According to
3 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap2,
4 > if an ebuild had an ~arch or arch keyword in the previous version, the
5 > policy is to make it ~arch in the new version. If for some reason the
6 > package maintainer is of the impression the new version would break a
7 > given arch, they may omit the arch from the new version and request the
8 > arch test out the package.
9
10 I also would hesitate to auto-~arch fairly critical packages, such as X
11 or anything in system.
12 --
13 Donnie Berkholz
14 Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild bumping policy wrt KEYWORDS Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>