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Bug 453378 - Devmanual should tell people to not start for stabilizing on exotic arches when not needed
Summary: Devmanual should tell people to not start for stabilizing on exotic arches wh...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Devmanual (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Devmanual Team
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Keywords: NeedPatch
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Reported: 2013-01-21 17:32 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2013-02-16 00:04 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-01-21 17:32:09 UTC
This is caused by devmanual partially duplicating information in two places:
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html#stabilizing-ebuilds -> It misses how to handle stabilization on exotic arches
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html -> It shows that info for keywording

I mean to this part of http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html:
"It's important to note that alternative arches (like alpha, arm, ia64, s390, sh, sparc, hppa, mips, ppc*) are mainly undermanned arches, some of them are slow, they have more basic problems and have a small userbase. Just file bugs for these architectures when a package is going to be a dependency of a package already keyworded."

It should also apply to stabilization of a package that wasn't ever stabilized in that arch, and that info should be noted in both places (if we really want to have it duplicated)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-02-08 10:47:40 UTC
We probably need a reference from http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html#stabilizing-ebuilds to http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html right below/above the instructions for SPARC/Alpha/MIPS.

Patches?