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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES
From:       Jeroen Roovers <jer () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2016-05-01 13:32:27
Message-ID: 20160501153227.4dd29bf5 () wim ! fritz ! box
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 23:16:42 +0200
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:

> just as a small reminder, to ease the load on all arch teams:
> 
> If a stablerequest has the keyword ALLARCHES set, then 
> * the first arch that tests successfully and stabilizes 
> * can and *should* immediately stabilize for all requested arches!

can => is allowed
should => may

> Whether this keyword is set on a bug is decision of the package
> maintainer. 
> 
> For example, Perl team sets ALLARCHES normall for all pure-perl
> packages (i.e., no compilation / gcc involved).

And it means we're missing opportunities where "pure" interpreted
packages may test corner cases of the language implementation and find
bugs in (JIT or previously) "compiled" code. And that means we're
calling things "stable" that may expose such bugs that turn out not to
be corner cases at all and affect running systems in unpleasant ways.



     jer

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