On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:23:33 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| > Feedback please. I advocate this approach for 'minor' packages, i.e.
| > nothing fundamental to the working of the system. It's more suitable
| > for scripting language libraries and minor applications (e.g.
| > obscure window managers).
| 
| A more appropriate option would be to allow users to test packages
| that have not been marked as broken on their arg and then have a
| policy that if at least two users have reported a package as stable,
| and an arch dev can compile it it will be marked testing, and stable
| if it has no problems within a reasonable time period.

This is basically how we do things for sparc already. For non-core
packages with sane dependencies, if it is reported as working by a user
(bugzilla or over irc) and it compiles then we'll usually keyword it up
pretty quickly. This is how we handle a lot of the more obscure
packages. "It works" reports are always welcomed :)

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Ciaran McCreesh
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