Re: [gentoo-dev] apache and ~arch

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:08:42 +0100 Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Marius Mauch wrote:
| > http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/hollow/2005/03/14/apache_dithering
| > "... and users using testing may not complain if things break."
| > 
| > That's the real problem.
| 
| They *should* complain, constructively, on a bugreport, stating the 
| issue and how they could resolve it. If people wouldn't be allowed to 
| reply to ~arch bugs, then why do we have ~arch?

We have ~arch for things that aren't well tested but aren't believed to
be broken. So, some midpoint is needed on the ~arch being broken thing.
On the one hand, it's not suitable for running on production kit, so
complaints about things which aren't known to be broken being added to
~arch aren't particularly viable. On the other hand, constructive useful
bug reports about breakages in ~arch that the maintainer doesn't know
about *are* useful, since they'll let the maintainer know that the
package isn't ready to go stable.

Probably easiest to think of ~arch as meaning "candidate for arch after
more testing".

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