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From: Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Aron Griffis wrote:

> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:[Tue Jun 07 2005, 05:32:31PM EDT]
>> I also vote for alpha. I would like to see some indication of
>> maintainer arch in metadata too, but in general agree with the
>> policy of if one arch stabilises then we can assume that is the
>> maintainer arch.
>
> Whoa, careful there.  It's not a policy and it's not even
> a recommendation.  I believe there are arch teams that will
> automatically stable a package after it has been ~arch for a period of
> time.  They will break your assumption.

Agreed, the PPC team is very good at arbitrarily marking things stable 
whenever they feel like it, and often times before the maintainer does.

Cheers,
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Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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