* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
@ 2014-01-17 6:06 99% ` grozin
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From: grozin @ 2014-01-17 6:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Sergey Popov wrote:
>> 3. Also, another interesting question has come up in this thread, that of
>> non-binary packages. Should we give maintainers the option of
>> stabilizing them on all arch's themselves?
> 3. If code is interpreted rather then compiled, it does not matter that
> it is properly ported on minor arches. I knew dozens of examples with
> Perl and Python packages(not sure about Ruby, but Hans said that it
> happens with it too). So, i would not treat such packages differently.
OK, let's be conservative. Python and Perl scripts may break on some
arches (I'd say it's a rare exception, perhaps 1%, but still). But what
about
dev-java/java-sdk-docs
dev-db/postgresql-docs
sys-kernel/linux-docs
dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-docs
app-xemacs/general-docs
dev-util/kdevelop-php-docs
dev-util/gnome-devel-docs
app-vim/phpdocs
gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs
gnome-extra/gnome-getting-started-docs
dev-php/smarty-docs
dev-python/python-docs
dev-python/cheetah-docs
app-doc/php-docs
app-doc/root-docs
app-doc/geant-docs
app-doc/blas-docs
app-doc/lapack-docs
app-doc/gnucash-docs
app-office/abiword-docs
dev-lisp/hyperspec
sys-apps/man-pages[-*]
and maybe others? They contain no scripts which can possibly break. I'd
say they should be keyworded on all arches as soon as they are keyworded
on the first arch; the same goes for stabilization. I'd include also
packages containing only TeX/LaTeX code - TeX behaves identically on all
arches, this was and is its main strength. Also, probably,
python/perl/ruby interpreted scripts *which don't load extra libraries*
work identically on all arches not in 99% of cases but in 99.99% (0.01% is
for cases when the interpreter is broken on a given arch).
Andrey
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