On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:33:05 -0800 > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why not allow maintainers to drop redundant stable and even ~arch >> keywords from their packages? > > This is standard practice already.
If there is still pain then maybe we need to re-communicate this, or clarify. To me if a package is in the tree and is outdated, but kept for only the benefit of a few lagging archs, then maintainers can close bugs as WONTFIX if they don't pertain to newer versions. If that is the case then there is no cost to keeping the old packages around. The main concern is around maintenance burden. The only way to reduce maintenance burden is to do less maintenance (I haven't heard any suggestions that will somehow make bugs go away). If maintainers are doing more maintenance than they are required to do, then simply reinforcing existing policy could solve the problem. We just need to align around expectations. Rich
