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

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:30:11 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Thursday 26 August 2004 17:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Personally I prefer my original wording:
| > > Arch teams: when moving from ~arch to arch on an actively
| > > maintained package where you're going ahead of the maintainer's
| > > arch, it's best to consult first.  You don't necessarily have to
| > > follow the maintainer's advice, but at least listen to what they
| > > have to say.
| 
| The problem is still the same: Other arch maintainers can't know,
| which arch is the package maintainers arch. I would always deny or
| mask it stable on my  arch as well, if I had no objections.

*sigh* x86 having broken stable gnome for two weeks and not realising
it (whilst other archs who went ahead of x86 had it working) just goes
to show that this is not always the case.

Oh, and you're assuming that all your packages are entirely arch
neutral. This is also not always the case.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
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