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 BCC33138247 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1E65E0AE7; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A73AAE09F2 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0A733F7D7 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:12:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.65 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.65 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.526, DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12=0.001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.123, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ujnZqDFlO6WI for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8F4D33F7B7 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Ild-0005JA-Ij for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:11:53 +0100 Received: from ppp118-209-118-79.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.118.79]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:11:53 +0100 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-118-79.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:11:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:11:43 +1100 Message-ID: References: <20140114213719.GA2684@laptop.home> <20140115044948.GA4345@laptop.home> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-118-79.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 In-Reply-To: <20140115044948.GA4345@laptop.home> X-Archives-Salt: 2bd9eed0-e7d2-435a-9b91-0ab59129397d X-Archives-Hash: c60ada29a07ad07e32e6b21a5c3ff5f7 On 01/15/2014 03:49 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:48:53AM +0700, grozin@gentoo.org wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, William Hubbs wrote: >>> 1. I think maintainers should be able to stabilize their packages on arch's >>> they have access to. I think this is allowed by some arch teams, but I >>> think it would be good to formalize it. >> +1 >> >> 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. > > William > I don't know the exact situation, but the devmanual[1] provides a little insight: "Do not assume that because your code is written in Perl / Python / Java / whatever that it will run on other archs (there is at least one case of a vim script which only worked on x86)." [1]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/#keywording-new-packages