>>>>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Petteri Räty wrote: >>> Jeroen Roovers kirjoitti: >>>> The list of architectures that Gentoo supports is one of its >>>> greatest assets. It is important that Gentoo makes available >>>> an as large as possible set of packages to as many platforms >>>> as is sanely doable. For this purpose we have a testing and >>>> stabilisation system that depends on architecture keywords >>>> being propagated from one version to the next. I would like >>>> to stress to all package maintainers that dropping keywords, >>>> i.e. removing any architecture's keyword entirely, instead of >>>> replacing "arch" with "~arch", _hurts_ the Gentoo Project.
> Isn't what you wrote the existing policy? If it is, then the last question of the end-quiz should be changed: | 19. You are bumping foomatic's ebuild from version 1.5 to version | 2.0. This new version is a massive rewrite which introduces | huge changes to the build system, the required libraries | and how the code works. What will you do for KEYWORDS here? My answer to it (about one year ago) wasn't in agreement with Jeroen's above statement, but my mentor and my recruiter were satisfied with it at the time. Ulrich -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
