On Tuesday 06 September 2005 19:11, Joshua Baergen wrote:
> Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> >  MAINTENANCE="~x86"  # Maintainer uses x86, package not deemed stable
>
> I would even suggest not indicating maintainer arch at all.  If ATs are
> going to be responsible for keywording we should blackbox the process to
> ward off assumptions and laziness.   Whether the maintainer thinks it's
> stable or not on x86 should not affect the AMD64 AT, or even the x86 AT
> for that matter.
>
> We could even boil it down to M_STABLE="yes"|"no" at that point
> (suggestions for variable name welcome).

In this case just adding a new keyword would be easier. It also would mean 
that current tools like imlate would be usable without (significant) change.

Paul

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