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From: Michael Weber <xmw@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:03:46
Message-Id: 5215B7C7.2040602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles by Sergey Popov
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4 On 08/22/2013 08:38 AM, Sergey Popov wrote:
5 > 21.08.2013 22:28, Alexis Ballier пишет:
6 >>
7 >> Instead of dropping them entirely to ~arch, maybe something in
8 >> between could be done: Said arches could start moving to ~arch
9 >> the leaf and less important packages. E.g. we have (had?) a lot
10 >> of sparc keywords on sound packages or ppc keywords on ocaml ones
11 >> because at some point (~10 years ago) some dev was interested in
12 >> these on this architecture but I'm pretty sure nobody uses them.
13 >>
14 >> In short: Reduce stable coverage to reduce the workload.
15 >>
16 >> Also, from what I've seen in the thread, you are talking about
17 >> keywords only, right ? Do these arches keep their stable mark in
18 >> profiles.desc?
19 >>
20 >
21 > I like this way much more. Let's clarify stabilization policy for
22 > some minor arches, e.g. policy about stabilization requests for
23 > huge packages. Cause dropping entire arch to ~arch maybe sometimes
24 > a bit overkill.
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26 And hard to revert. Sparc did drop a lot of keywords lately, by removing
27 itself from STABLEREQ w/o stabling the mentioned package.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>