Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El jue, 17-06-2010 a las 06:07 +0200, Jeroen Roovers escribió:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:39:01 -0400
> Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Your preferred method is exactly how (as a ppc keyworder) I like to
> > see these kind of bugs handled. Dropping keywords makes an awful lot
> > more work for us and hurts our users, especially since we're not
> > always very prompt at handling bugs.
> 
> Well, reasoning for the HPPA team, which maintains an architecture
> that is dying rather more quickly than PPC32 (which still has all kinds
> of embedded uses and so on),, in favour of IA64, I'd rather see dropped
> keywords than new profile entries, possibly with the keyworded ebuilds
> being gradually removed after an OK. That way I can make a choice to
> keep a package (set) for a bit or to stop supporting it immediately.
> 

In that case, could you then consider to un-CC from keywording bugs hppa
team is not willing to fix? I think it would help a lot to "clean" the
tree of old versions that are been kept as it's the inly keyworded on
hppa

Thanks a lot

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