В Пн, 30/09/2013 в 00:54 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel пишет: > Am Sonntag, 29. September 2013, 23:41:03 schrieb hasufell: > > It seems this happens more frequently these days, so I'd like to > > remind people to check stable reverse deps before stabilizing a > > library, especially when this is a non-maintainer stablereq. > > > > Arch teams do not test them, so this is the business of the maintainer > > or the dev who requested stabilization. > > Arch testing includes testing of reverse deps. > If that's not the case, arch teams are not doing their job.
I think it's good idea if maintainers and arch team developers will work in tandem and help each other by both checking reverse deps. That said the question here is who is in charge for stable tree stability? Stable tree is the arch team's primary responsibility. That is why only they are allowed to touch stable keywords after all. So arch team developer should never commit anything if at least few reverse deps were checked. Last but not least, I guess that average developer has lot's of things in package.keywords, so it's not sane to expect developer to do stable tree checks. -- Peter.
