Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild bumping policy wrt KEYWORDS

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 01:20, Jason Wever wrote:
> Personally, I would rather run into a package breaking in a revbump than
> have it be missing keywords and not notified that it was behind. While yes
> this stinks from a QA perspective, it also gets the problem addressed and
> resolved quicker (usually) than running into it later on down the road. 
> It's also a lot easier wrt the overhead the package maintainers, arch
> maintainers and infrastructure maintainers have to go through to
> accomidate extra emails, bugs, etc if test requests had to be issued each
> time a package got rev or version bumped in the portage tree.

So for Sparc, I should just KEYWORD away (on non-critical packages) and
hope nothing breaks?

(Though I will be testing on my U2 once I get my hard drive in for it.)

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
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