In Gentoo terms, 'testing' and 'unstable' are mostly synonymous, so using the two names for different purposes is confusing. Use 'degraded' instead.
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> --- glep-0072.rst | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/glep-0072.rst b/glep-0072.rst index a0aa5d5..6fdee6b 100644 --- a/glep-0072.rst +++ b/glep-0072.rst @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ a) An architecture loses its stable status (imagine c128), but about a broken stable dependency tree. If we do that, repoman does however also not check ~c128 consistency, meaning that the ~c128 dependency tree will soon be broken as well due to negligence. Given arches.conf as - described below, one could set the architecture c128 to "testing" status + described below, one could set the architecture c128 to "degraded" status and keep stable profiles. This results in stable keywords being ignored, but consistency of the ~c128 dependency tree is still enforced. @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ b) An architecture prepares for becoming a stable architecture (think arm64). as the stable dependency tree is not complete yet, the profiles need to be set to dev/exp, and again this brings the danger of the ~arm64 dependency tree getting inadvertently broken. Again the combination of setting the - architecture to "testing" in arches.desc and profiles to stable helps. + architecture to "degraded" in arches.desc and profiles to stable helps. Finally, at the moment the "semi-official" algorithm to figure out if an architecture is stable in the colloquial sense (e.g., requires stabilization @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ are ignored. Every blank line is ignored. Otherwise the file consists of two whitespace-separated columns: - first column: architecture name (keyword) -- second column: one of the three values ``stable``, ``testing``, ``unstable`` +- second column: one of the three values ``stable``, ``degraded``, ``unstable`` Additional columns are ignored to allow for future revisions of this document. @@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ An example arches.desc file might look as follows:: amd64 stable x86 stable # not for long - mips testing + sparc degraded m68k unstable outdated Initial value in the gentoo repository -------------------------------------- On introduction, the setting will be ``stable`` for all stable architectures, -``testing`` for all architectures where "inofficial" stable keywords are +``degraded`` for all architectures where "inofficial" stable keywords are maintained and are present in the repository by the arch teams (sh, s390, ...), and ``unstable`` everywhere else. @@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ by profiles.desc (and ``-d`` / ``-e`` switches). This is the current behaviour and shall be the default if nothing is specified for an architecture. -testing -~~~~~~~ +degraded +~~~~~~~~ When a profile of an architecture is tested, then repoman treats ``arch`` in ebuilds as ``~arch``, and tests consistency only for ``~arch``. @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Which profiles of the arch are tested is still controlled by profiles.desc (and ``-d`` / ``-e`` switches). A new switch for repoman may be provided to temporarily upgrade -an architecture from ``testing`` to ``stable`` status (for architecture team +an architecture from ``degraded`` to ``stable`` status (for architecture team work). unstable @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ arches.desc present and old system Utilities ignore the unknown file. Repoman and other tools may emit surplus dependency errors when profiles are -checked on arches that are ``testing`` (they check the consistency +checked on arches that are ``degraded`` (they check the consistency of the stable tree alone, which may fail, since ``arch`` is supposed to be treated like ``~arch``). This affects only development work and can be fixed by updating repoman. -- 2.26.0