On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 17:09 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2021-10-18 03:08, John Helmert III wrote: > > A security bug, for example, is currently blocked for almost a month > > waiting for hppa stabilization [1], and this isn't the first time > > we've had to wait for a "slower" arch on a security bug. > > Excuse me? How is this possible? > > We have that Gentoo Vulnerability Treatment Policy and HPPA isn't listed > in supported architectures. That problem was resolved in 2018 [1]. >
Security team arbitrarily deciding that an architecture is unsupported while otherwise it's supported in Gentoo doesn't change anything. Sure, you can close bugs and pretend that a problem doesn't exist... except that you can't if you can't remove the old version because of keywords. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
