On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 15:40 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 5/10/17 3:29 PM, David Seifert wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 22:24 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 10.05.2017 kell 15:01, kirjutas Anthony G. > > > Basile: > > > > On 5/10/17 11:08 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness > > > > > > @gen > > > > > > to > > > > > > o.org> wrote: > > > > > > > I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and > > > > > > > musl. I > > > > > > > would > > > > > > > appreciate keeping ppc as is. It is still a useful arch > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > many > > > > > > > devices today, eg. some high end Mikrotik routers. > > > > > > > > > > > > So are you willing to do the work? There are currently 68 > > > > > > open > > > > > > keyword > > > > > > requests (oldest one reported in 2011) and 48 open stable > > > > > > requests > > > > > > (oldest one reported in November). > > > > > > > > > > +1000 > > > > > > > > > > If we are going to keep ppc as a stable profile, someone > > > > > needs to > > > > > do the > > > > > keywording and stabilization for it. > > > > > > > > > > William > > > > > > > > > > > > > the current plan by Soap et al is to drop all keywords except > > > > for > > > > @system and leave the profiles stable. this works for me and > > > > addresses > > > > your concern. > > > > > > Are we talking about dropping all keywords besides @system things > > > from > > > ppc to ~ppc or completely? > > > I guess the latter as the former doesn't solve keywording lag? > > > > > > > > > Mart > > > > > > > The latter, as that is the only way to restore sanity. I will be > > preparing a list. > > > > So let's make sure we're on the same page -- here's my understanding. > > 1) For @system packages, we will have KEYWORDS="ppc" for the stable > versions and KEYWORDS="~ppc" for the rest. > > 2) For non @system packages we will remove both ppc and ~ppc > keywords. > > 3) If for some reason I need to add back a package to build/maintain > stage3/4, I will rekeyword myself, but other than that, we will *not* > balloon the keywords. > > 4) I will take on the responsibility of stabilizing ppc @system > packages > if need be. >
That's the plan, correct.
