[gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items

[Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>]

On 04/04/15 07:13, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Freitag, 3. April 2015, 22:01:32 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> 
>> For reference, the policy we came up with last time for ia64 and alpha only was:
> 
>>   "If a maintainer has an open STABLEREQ, or a KEYWORDREQ blocking a
>>   pending STABLEREQ, for 90 days with archs CCed and otherwise ready
>>   to be stabilized, the maintainer can remove older stable versions of
>>   the package at their discretion. A package is considered ready to be
>>   stabilized if it has been in the tree for 30 days, and has no known
>>   major flaws on arches that upstream considers supported."
> 
> If we're bringing this up again, we should maybe also clarify it. My understanding at the time was that the removal of older stable versions may leave the deptree of the arch in question in a broken state, however bad that is. There seem to be different interpretations though.

I am against breaking the deptree for any arch that has a stable
profile. It's reasonable to expect devs to dekeyword revdeps to ensure
the deptree is consistent.
If the state of the arch really is that bad, its profiles should be
switched to dev or exp to reflect reality.