Re: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-02-25

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

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On 12:41 Thu 13 Feb     , Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:46:33PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > Stable keywords on "~arch only" architectures in ebuilds.
> > > 
> > > Possible options include
> > > * drop 'em all
> > > * require a "dropping by tree aging"
> > > * allow for arch-team purposes limited stable marking, but package
> > > maintainers neednt care
> > 
> > How about moving the status of ~arch only profiles to exp in
> > profiles.desc as vapier suggested, or is that covered in your last
> > option?
> 
> Can do that, sure... I didnt really intend to exhaustively describe everything 
> when writing this mail, that's why I linked to bug and ml thread.

Yeah, this idea of dropping keywords wholesale totally screws with new 
or revived ports. I much prefer repoman ignoring stable on a given arch 
by marking it exp (during active porting) or dev (when the port is 
thought to basically work) as Mike described in 
<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498332#c5> / 
<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498332#c11>.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>

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