On 01/15/2014 03:49 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:48:53AM +0700, [email protected] wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, William Hubbs wrote: >>> 1. I think maintainers should be able to stabilize their packages on arch's >>> they have access to. I think this is allowed by some arch teams, but I >>> think it would be good to formalize it. >> +1 >> >> Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain only python >> code (or perl, ruby), or only LaTeX classes, or only documentation. It >> makes no sense to test them on each arch separately. I think maintainers >> should be allowed to stabilize such packages (with no compiled code) on >> all arches. > > There is a reason we don't do this, back in Gentoo history somewhere, but I > don't remember what it was. > > If someone can tell us why this isn't allowed I am all ears. Otherwise, > I could agree on this point as well. > > William > I don't know the exact situation, but the devmanual[1] provides a little insight: "Do not assume that because your code is written in Perl / Python / Java / whatever that it will run on other archs (there is at least one case of a vim script which only worked on x86)."
[1]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/#keywording-new-packages
