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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev Mailing List <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild bumping policy wrt KEYWORDS
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:31:32
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.61.0408260928260.12674@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild bumping policy wrt KEYWORDS by Chris Gianelloni
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4 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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6 > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 01:20, Jason Wever wrote:
7 >> Personally, I would rather run into a package breaking in a revbump than
8 >> have it be missing keywords and not notified that it was behind. While yes
9 >> this stinks from a QA perspective, it also gets the problem addressed and
10 >> resolved quicker (usually) than running into it later on down the road.
11 >> It's also a lot easier wrt the overhead the package maintainers, arch
12 >> maintainers and infrastructure maintainers have to go through to
13 >> accomidate extra emails, bugs, etc if test requests had to be issued each
14 >> time a package got rev or version bumped in the portage tree.
15 >
16 > So for Sparc, I should just KEYWORD away (on non-critical packages) and
17 > hope nothing breaks?
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19 Sorry, this was meant only for causes where previous revisions of a given
20 package had sparc or ~sparc keywords and the package maintainer is
21 uncertain of whether to keep them or not going forward.
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24 Jason Wever
25 Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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