Re: [gentoo-dev] games-emulation/jgemu keywording request

[Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gentoo@asokolov.org>]

11.09.2023 21:31, orbea пишет:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:21:43 -0400
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:11 PM orbea <orbea@riseup.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:38:48 +0100
>>> Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
>>>>   
>>>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:18:45 +0100
>>>>> Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>> orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Several months ago I made this issue for keywording the
>>>>>>> games-emulation/jgemu meta package which is a collection of
>>>>>>> minimal emulators for the command-line games-emulation/jgrf
>>>>>>> frontend with a focus on accuracy.
>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You've not populated the package list and no arches are CC'd,
>>>>>> but we don't keyword things for no reason either on (very)
>>>>>> niche arches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please select a reasonable set of architectures.
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/891201
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>
>>>>> Apologies, I wasn't aware I needed to do that and in retrospect
>>>>> I should of thought of it. Just to be clear you mean add an
>>>>> issue for each issue and then use them as blockers for the
>>>>> games-emulation/jgemu issue?
>>>>
>>>> No, one bug is okay if you populate the package list field in
>>>> Bugzilla.
>>>>
>>>> Just keep in mind that keywording isn't the same as upstreaam CI
>>>> either and we generally want to only keyword on arches where
>>>> someone is likely to use it.
>>>>   
>>>
>>> Apologies, I now understand what you meant...
>>>
>>> The goal is to hopefully entice real world testers on systems that
>>> jgemu may be used. This is not something a CI would be able to
>>> accomplish.
>>
>> This is not an appropriate use of Gentoo arch testing. We keyword
>> things based on user demand, not to satisfy the urges of upstream
>> developers.
>>
> 
> Its a common occurrence that upstreams refuse to consider distros and
> leave them hanging, but I honestly did not expect the inverse where the
> distro is unwilling while the upstream is....
> 

End users are already able to attempt building any package on any 
architecture by adding that package and its deps to 
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords as **

Users who wish to contribute as CI to jgemu can do so already. Users who 
do not wish, won't do that even with the keyword.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov