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 C189C138247 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A10CE0BD5; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:32:44 +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 5CF4BE0B1A for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from grubbs.orbis-terrarum.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F26233F5D7 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4054 invoked by uid 10000); 16 Jan 2014 02:32:41 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:32:41 +0000 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy Message-ID: References: <20140114213719.GA2684@laptop.home> <52D6D489.9030302@gentoo.org> <20140115190744.GA2645@laptop.home> <1389833907.20022.7.camel@oswin.hackershack.net> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1389833907.20022.7.camel@oswin.hackershack.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 63633709-e9e9-459d-9def-34854385394f X-Archives-Hash: 506753634818b9ce67fd17abb65ab23a On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:58:27PM -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > We actually ran into something along this issue with git. > > Now, arm is an interesting keyword, because for arm, when something > needs to be stabled, we have to test armv4, armv5, armv6, armv6 > hardfloat, armv7, armv7 hardfloat, armv7 uclibc. > > In my testing, one known issue was that git on uclibc did (and still > doesn't) work properly starting with git 1.8 - so I noted in the bug > that this was the case, and to NOT stable it for arm. Unfortunately, > someone else on the ARM team disregarded the note and stabled the new > git, then the git maintainers dropped the old versions. Now on arm > uclibc, git is entirely broken and unusable. Ugh, this does suck. Wasn't there a proposal years ago to include the libc in the keyword? -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85