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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:33:05 -0800 |
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> ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Why not allow maintainers to drop redundant stable and even ~arch |
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>> keywords from their packages? |
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> This is standard practice already. |
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If there is still pain then maybe we need to re-communicate this, or clarify. |
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To me if a package is in the tree and is outdated, but kept for only |
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the benefit of a few lagging archs, then maintainers can close bugs as |
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WONTFIX if they don't pertain to newer versions. If that is the case |
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then there is no cost to keeping the old packages around. |
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The main concern is around maintenance burden. The only way to reduce |
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maintenance burden is to do less maintenance (I haven't heard any |
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suggestions that will somehow make bugs go away). If maintainers are |
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doing more maintenance than they are required to do, then simply |
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reinforcing existing policy could solve the problem. We just need to |
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align around expectations. |
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Rich |
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