On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:38:20AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > Well, if they make no choice then the maintainer deletes the package. > That's what you want, right? The package would only stay around if > the minor arch asked them to. If they don't do that, then nobody can > complain. > > However, I don't think it makes sense to enact changes like these > unless the minor arch teams actually speak up about wanting the > changes. If they don't I'd be inclined to just clarify that > maintainers are welcome to trim old stable versions on minor archs if > the bugs are older than n days.
That's exactly what my proposed patch to the devmanual says [1]. It only applies to packages when the arch team does not respond to a stable request within 90 days after they were added to it. The problem is, this isn't just a clarification. It is a change of policy. The current policy is that a maintainer is not allowed to delete the last stable version of a package on any architecture under any circumstances [2]. William [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500014 [2] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html
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