Re: [gentoo-dev] games-emulation/jgemu keywording request

[orbea <orbea@riseup.net>]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:21:43 -0400
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:11 PM orbea <orbea@riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:38:48 +0100
> > Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >  
> > > orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
> > >  
> > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:18:45 +0100
> > > > Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > >  
> > > >> orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
> > > >>  
> > > >> > Hi,
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Several months ago I made this issue for keywording the
> > > >> > games-emulation/jgemu meta package which is a collection of
> > > >> > minimal emulators for the command-line games-emulation/jgrf
> > > >> > frontend with a focus on accuracy.
> > > >> >  
> > > >>
> > > >> You've not populated the package list and no arches are CC'd,
> > > >> but we don't keyword things for no reason either on (very)
> > > >> niche arches.
> > > >>
> > > >> Please select a reasonable set of architectures.
> > > >>  
> > > >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/891201  
> > > >>
> > > >>  
> > > >
> > > > Apologies, I wasn't aware I needed to do that and in retrospect
> > > > I should of thought of it. Just to be clear you mean add an
> > > > issue for each issue and then use them as blockers for the
> > > > games-emulation/jgemu issue?  
> > >
> > > No, one bug is okay if you populate the package list field in
> > > Bugzilla.
> > >
> > > Just keep in mind that keywording isn't the same as upstreaam CI
> > > either and we generally want to only keyword on arches where
> > > someone is likely to use it.
> > >  
> >
> > Apologies, I now understand what you meant...
> >
> > The goal is to hopefully entice real world testers on systems that
> > jgemu may be used. This is not something a CI would be able to
> > accomplish.  
> 
> This is not an appropriate use of Gentoo arch testing. We keyword
> things based on user demand, not to satisfy the urges of upstream
> developers.
> 

Its a common occurrence that upstreams refuse to consider distros and
leave them hanging, but I honestly did not expect the inverse where the
distro is unwilling while the upstream is....