* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
@ 2014-01-16 2:32 99% ` Robin H. Johnson
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From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2014-01-16 2:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:58:27PM -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> We actually ran into something along this issue with git.
>
> Now, arm is an interesting keyword, because for arm, when something
> needs to be stabled, we have to test armv4, armv5, armv6, armv6
> hardfloat, armv7, armv7 hardfloat, armv7 uclibc.
>
> In my testing, one known issue was that git on uclibc did (and still
> doesn't) work properly starting with git 1.8 - so I noted in the bug
> that this was the case, and to NOT stable it for arm. Unfortunately,
> someone else on the ARM team disregarded the note and stabled the new
> git, then the git maintainers dropped the old versions. Now on arm
> uclibc, git is entirely broken and unusable.
Ugh, this does suck.
Wasn't there a proposal years ago to include the libc in the keyword?
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