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* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
  @ 2014-01-15  5:07 99%     ` Robin H. Johnson
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From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2014-01-15  5:07 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:49:48PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain only python 
> > code (or perl, ruby), or only LaTeX classes, or only documentation. It 
> > makes no sense to test them on each arch separately. I think maintainers 
> > should be allowed to stabilize such packages (with no compiled code) on 
> > all arches.
> There is a reason we don't do this, back in Gentoo history somewhere, but  I
> don't remember what it was.
> 
> If someone can tell us why this isn't allowed I am all ears. Otherwise,
> I could agree on this point as well.
I vaguely recall an example of some non-compiled Perl code that wasn't
portable over architectures. 

However I feel that should really be the exception, not the general
case.

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