-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/14 09:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:01 AM, William Hubbs > <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:36 AM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> >>> wrote: >>>> This is still too vague for me. If it's expected to be >>>> short-term, then it can as well just land in ~arch. >>> >>> A package that hasn't been tested AT ALL doesn't belong in >>> ~arch. Suppose the maintainer is unable to test some aspect of >>> the package, or any aspect of the package? Do we want it to >>> break completely for ~arch? In that event, nobody will run >>> ~arch for that package, and then it still isn't getting >>> tested. >> >> I'm not saying that we should just randomly throw something into >> ~arch without testing it, but ~arch users are running ~arch with >> the understanding that their systems will break from time to time >> and they are expected to be able to deal with it when/if it >> happens. ~arch is not a second stable branch. > > Agree 100%. I'm taking about masking things that HAVEN'T BEEN > TESTED AT ALL. The maintainer knows that they compile, and that is > it. Or maybe they tested it in a very limited set of circumstances > but know that other untested circumstances are important to the > users and they have definite plans to get them tested. >
Here's a great example of this -- dev-libs/nss-3.16-r1 is p.masked by me for testing, because when I converted it to multilib i needed to change the way it does some internal ABI determination tests, and although I know it does work fine on multilib-amd64 and (non-multilib) x86, I am not confident without more testing that it will work for cross-compiles or other non-multilib arches. As such, it -is- in the tree, but I've masked it until I can test it myself in these circumstances or find someone else that can do it for me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlOxgJ8ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPC8zAD/XwulPJp4f3xNFe4ZP7gE+kmp qhmdvJjUFyWW8j1dTHMA/jFc/mrH/dnyq/MJWBlUbEFY3ccebpLw/8C6/IaSeXw4 =iKL1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
