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From: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:42:38
Message-Id: 341f7f63-ce0a-eed0-c721-355fab8bbd52@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp by David Seifert
1 08.05.2017 22:21, David Seifert пишет:
2 > On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 22:08 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
3 >> We have appropriate hardware if people wanna do the work, jut go &
4 >> make
5 >> things better :), I do not think someone from existing arch teams has
6 >> something against that
7 > Ok so let me get the logic right:
8 >
9 > 1) Arch teams can add their keywords to ebuilds in general, without the
10 > maintainer having a say in that.
11 > 2) Arch team goes MIA because <reasons/>.
12 > 3) Now the maintainer has to chase down machines and do KEYWORDREQ
13 > testing on other arches because we cannot admit that some archs are not
14 > maintained.
15 >
16 > Please confirm the above logic. If that logic is about right, I am
17 > sorry, but I disagree. I will rather dekeyword unmaintained archs. I am
18 > not going to babysit arch teams in doing their work for them.
19 >
20 To clarify:
21
22 I have not seen the draft of proper reverting these arches to exp or
23 dev, if it will be like sh or s390, better kill the horse like debian
24 did to alpha and hppa, without riding it.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>