Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking virtuals stable

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Ulrich Mueller kirjoitti:
>>>>>> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Petteri Räty wrote:
> 
>>> I could not find any official guidelines for keywording of virtual
>>> packages.
> 
>> They are keyworded as any other packages. You can't make them stable
>> if they have ~arch only dependencies. When one provider is stable,
>> they are fine to go stable.
> 
> Yes, I think this part is clear.
> 
> The point of my question was more if the usual rules apply, i.e.:
> keywording and stabilising only by arch teams; wait one month before
> the package can go stable. Which seems not to be current practice for
> virtual packages. (And makes no sense anyway, IMHO.)
> 
> Ulrich

The month is not set in stone. About who marks them, it's probably best
to get the opinion of the arch teams. I don't think they will object to
normal developers marking them. Arch teams: what do you think?

Regards,
Petteri


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