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

[orbea <orbea@riseup.net>]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:40:27 +0100
Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:

> orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
> 
> > 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....  
> 
> That doesn't mean we're able to start acting as CI. We already have
> enough test failures and build failures to handle for packages
> where people want to use them on alt-arches.
> 

The goal was to expose these issues so that people can use them, but if
no one is at all interested then close the issue.