From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA18138A1A for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1539E0A40; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com (mail-pd0-f177.google.com [209.85.192.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98EB1E0955 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdev10 with SMTP id v10so36279278pde.7 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:09:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=CKadVJpJYgffR7e49DvBbFmGXYzqDkd0IWMx8aqTaaM=; b=xvtg6v8+wrzu5zXqAVQMoEeJADfbZyy5unA17vstgT1leY/hMN70mHQaoYUvWRNk0T OZsUq/mdOMqktgE+kI6bSy6j4rA/baujac7jp2A8JL8ffZUtqMnlERaEl1bdee0FSB7s tC5OstvbHKnn7lOV4mYwvTikA3YhviW9Ep8RPCnkk+ZwD4/e42lA9xlUX+tMYfxTQpmw BR27gBod8+LhF9hIH4EL5Yvvve1j7pqmbu0ZszO+wk01rBc7j67Sm6c9QrzBTeHXwydX 5cOr5Wy+TtezJQo8bVcdya8fyBbw68UYTpc3+j53eM3EMtqfUb9r7zZuTMXn9sf40qMK qliw== 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 X-Received: by 10.68.200.97 with SMTP id jr1mr40329877pbc.123.1424099366735; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:09:26 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.70.85.39 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:09:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1424093690.27408.35.camel@gentoo.org> References: <1424093690.27408.35.camel@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:09:26 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eeswM5GbN0oyF2QDWRmPnbGwrGE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Cc: Gentoo ppc AT , Gentoo ppc64 AT , Gentoo alpha AT , Gentoo sparc AT , ia64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 37155d6f-25d7-4bd9-861e-7ff23b7da74d X-Archives-Hash: 222581ee7b465da7c150edd98e7b83df On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > The current policy of maintainers dropping keywords after 90 days is > simply not applied because it leads up to that maintainer needing to > kill himself that keyword and ALL the reverse deps keywords A published script might ease that, especially with the move to git (where that could be done in a single commit). Another option is to just allow the keywords to be dropped without fixing the reverse deps on those archs in these circumstances, though that can be messier for users. -- Rich