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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 PM, <grozin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such
>> packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is
>> ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for
>> stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize
>> noarch. Comments?
>>
> There's been opposition to this in the past, but I'm in favor of
> giving this a shot.
>
I too think it is at least worth a try. We can learn from this either
way. Maybe start out leaving it up to maintainer discretion, and if
that becomes an issue we can try to formulate guidelines.
Rich