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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ALLARCHES and the maintainer action(s)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 08:44:05
Message-Id: 20150921084353.GA131069@skade.schwarzvogel.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ALLARCHES and the maintainer action(s) by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 Hi!
2
3 On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
4
5 > On 9/20/15 1:23 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
6 > >
7 > >> [0] I am pretty sure some arches will want to opt out of this
8 > >> scheme, at least for some more critical packages.
9 > > ALLARCHES shouldn't be used on critical packages.
10 >
11 > Exactly. So suppose that we do stabilize a non-critical package on an
12 > arch where it fails. We'll get a bug report for it and then deal with
13 > the issue. Its not ideal, i know, but it seems an acceptable compromise
14 > given manpower shortage. We tossed around an earlier version of the
15 > idea in ppc/ppc64 when we were struggling for manpower and we were
16 > getting council pressure to drop to ~arch.
17
18 This I am perfectly okay with; what I worry about is tree-level
19 breakage (missing deps/slots, for example).
20
21 Regards,
22 Tobias
23
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