Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-02 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/01/2014 05:35, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 08/01/2014 04:52, Raúl Porcel wrote: >> >> Indeed! The thing was that a lot of the packages were keyworded and >> marked stable back in the day where the arch was more popular. >> >> But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Duncan
Raúl Porcel posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:52:21 +0200 as excerpted: > But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less > popular: > > alpha: no new hardware in more than 8+ years > hppa: being phased out IIRC, and no new workstations > (ie, graphics/sound) in 5+ years > ia64:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/01/2014 04:52, Raúl Porcel wrote: > On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they >>> remove themselves from it and say so? >>> >>> Also, if an arch team does that, does that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Raúl Porcel
On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they >> remove themselves from it and say so? >> >> Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't have to file >> stable requests

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they > remove themselves from it and say so? > > Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't have to file > stable requests for that arch on future versions of the package?

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/27/2014 02:20 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > I know I'm replying to my own message, but I do have a concern about > this that I want to ask about. > > When a stable request is filed for a package, it is filed for all > architectures which have the ~arch keyword for the package and are > marked