Re: [gentoo-project] Dropping unstable packages on minor archs

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:44:57 -0400
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

If you read that as:

>   "If a maintainer has [...] a KEYWORDREQ blocking a
>   pending STABLEREQ, for 90 days with archs CCed and otherwise ready
>   to be stabilized [...]

where you would sensibly assume that any KEYWORDREQ that is -not-
needed for a STABLEREQ is flawed, then all this is superfluous:

> Are there any objections to changing "the maintainer can remove older
> stable versions of the package at their discretion" to "the
> maintainer can remove older versions of the package at their
> discretion?"  In the case of a KEYWORDREQ the older version might not
> be stable.

Keyword requests that do not block stabilisation requests should be
requested by users of the specified architectures or should go
to /dev/null. Keyword requests that do block stabilisation requests
should get the same treatment as the stabilisation requests that they
block. How else would you resolve them?

> Surely if a stable version can be removed, an unstable one could be...

Yes.


     jer