Alin Nastac wrote: [Wed Mar 09 2005, 04:57:15PM CST]
> Btw, what is the sense of ~arch if not "testing"? No gentooer 
> expects from a ~arch ebuild to be stable, so the sky would not fall if 
> you made a mistake and release it under this keyword. When I hear "I 
> cannot mark foo library as ~arch because I don't know how to test it" 
> smells like excuse to me.

*Sigh*  The meaning of ~arch is that, at a minimum, the package works
for the person who keyworded it (or, in some cases, worked for a trusted
user on whose behalf the package was keyworded).   In other words, the
dev believes that the package works, and that belief is based on
evidence, not just wishful thinking.  An "arch" keyword means that there
is considerable evidence that the package works for multiple people.
Packages that might work, but also might not, ideally should not be in
the tree at all, but could reasonably be package.mask'ed if testing is
imminent.

I'm pretty sure that I'm spouting the company line, here, but feel free
to correct me if I'm wrong.

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