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Ferris McCormick wrote: [Tue Jun 22 2004, 06:25:43PM EDT] |
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> If I understand II (which I missed or misread in the first wave of these |
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> notes), it says something like "A keyword of '+amd64' means that 'the |
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> maintainer believes that this package is a candidate for stable, and it |
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> is in fact stable on amd64, which is where the maintainer tested it." |
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> (And, I suppose, in an unusual situation, the maintainer could use |
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> just 'amd64' to mean "For critical reasons this has to be stable on |
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> amd64 even though I the maintainer am not all *that* confident." In |
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> this case, the maintainer would be wearing ar architecture hat.) |
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> If my first sentence is close to correct (everything up to the |
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> hypothetical), my preference is also solution II. |
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You're correct, and this might untie arch-stability from |
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package-stability. Good observation. |
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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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