Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 11:22:07 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> -----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. But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report whether it works :P. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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