Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-02 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/01/2014 05:35, Joshua Kinard wrote: On 08/01/2014 04:52, Raúl Porcel wrote: Indeed! The thing was that a lot of the packages were keyworded and marked stable back in the day where the arch was more popular. But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less popular:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Raúl Porcel
On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they remove themselves from it and say so? Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't have to file stable requests for that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 08/01/2014 04:52, Raúl Porcel wrote: On 07/26/14 19:33, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they remove themselves from it and say so? Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-08-01 Thread Duncan
Raúl Porcel posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:52:21 +0200 as excerpted: But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less popular: alpha: no new hardware in more than 8+ years hppa: being phased out IIRC, and no new workstations (ie, graphics/sound) in 5+ years ia64: no new

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/27/2014 02:20 AM, William Hubbs wrote: I know I'm replying to my own message, but I do have a concern about this that I want to ask about. When a stable request is filed for a package, it is filed for all architectures which have the ~arch keyword for the package and are marked

[gentoo-dev] Re: About current ppc/ppc64 status

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/27/2014 03:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: If an arch team isn't going to honor a stable request, shouldn't they remove themselves from it and say so? Also, if an arch team does that, does that mean we don't have to file stable requests for that arch on future versions of the package?