On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 09:10:01AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 07:13 +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote: > > I'm suggesting a new QA policy to disallow any "live-ebuild-only > > packages" being hosted in ::gentoo. > > I'm with you on this though I think it should be relaxed to disallow > only long term presence of pure live packages. It's fine to add a live > ebuild first for a month or two if you're still working on something > (just like it's fine to add a masked package). However, it's not fine > to leave things like this for years. > > That said, maybe the policy should cover 'long-term masked packages' > in general. See below.
I agree with this. long term is definitely not good, but I typically add the live ebuild to test first before I do the real ones. SELinux packages specifically I have a script which handles bumping all of them properly by copying the -9999 to the current as I cut a release. So to add a new policy, I'll add the -9999 ebuild a while before. The aim is obviously on the order of days but sometimes ENOTIME so it might be a while longer. Thanks, Jason
