Hi, Aron Griffis wrote: > - A few people, myself included, pointed out that there's some > valuable information available when keywords are always added to > the end rather than being alphabetized. In particular, the > concept of a "maintainer arch" is possible, in which the first > arch in the list is supposed to indicate general stability of > the ebuild, a leader for other arches to follow. > > - Some people disagreed with the "maintainer arch" concept. They > felt that the arch teams do a better job of testing than some > maintainers, and there's no point waiting for a maintainer to > decide something is stable.
>From [1]: |When a package version has proved stable for sufficient time and the |Gentoo maintainer of the package is confident that the upgrade will not |break a regular Gentoo user's machine, then it can be moved from ~ARCH |to ARCH. An indication of the package's stability would be no verified |or unresolved bug report for a month after the version's introduction. If that policy is dropped, I'd prefer alpha, otherways append. Greetings, blubb [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1 -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
