From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZEIw-00038p-Vz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:54:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A15EE06D6; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C04BE055D for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([72.81.7.29]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JXL00HIOBDB4ET3@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:46:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE671240CA for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:46:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:46:22 -0400 From: Richard Freeman Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Keywords policy In-reply-to: <1205264858.28856.145.camel@liasis.inforead.com> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <47D719CE.6050501@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080301103002.A2AE266A22@smtp.gentoo.org> <200803081610.33774.philantrop@gentoo.org> <20080310060849.4c2bf0c9@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <47D4F26C.7050701@gentoo.org> <20080310145044.19146whhfp0x6h0k@www2.mailstation.de> <20080310162619.50952j57if1ecwt4@www2.mailstation.de> <20080311044938.72401cd7@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <47D60D36.6090402@gentoo.org> <47D6A437.8030308@gentoo.org> <1205264858.28856.145.camel@liasis.inforead.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080301) X-Archives-Salt: 34318f6c-498c-41b1-9929-ba2ba5596d36 X-Archives-Hash: f565aa9ccac7a344a92f4de625f7219d Ferris McCormick wrote: > > Um, not really --- this is too broad. Some packages are not keyworded > because no one has ever tried them. We occasionally get keyword > requests of the form "Please add ~sparc keyword to .... because I've > been using it and it works fine" in response to which we do add the > keyword if it does work. No maintainer action involved, because the > maintainer apparently doesn't know if the package works on sparc or not > anyway. A STABLEREQ is a different matter, masked packages are a > different matter, but not just keywording. > If the package were already keyworded ~arch on a few other archs I wouldn't hesitate to add ~amd64 if it worked on amd64. However, if a package were ~arch on several archs I would not keyword it stable amd64 without the maintainer's input (or at least lack of response in the case of an inactive maintainer). I don't think maintainers need to be bugged all the time, but they should be asked about making an ebuild stable for the first time, or unmasking/etc. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list