On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:48:53AM +0700, gro...@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

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