[patch] stable.patch

stable.patch (text/plain), 1.12 KB, created by William Hubbs on 2014-02-01 19:53:54 UTC

diff --git a/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
index 290b5df..ee47986 100644
--- a/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
+++ b/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
@@ -214,6 +214,19 @@ themselves from the list when they are done, giving a clear indication
 of which teams still have to stabilize a package.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+If an older version of a package has been stabilized on an architecture and
+a newer stable request has had the architecture team added to it for 90 days,
+and there are no blockers and no action has been taken by the architecture team,
+you may, at your discretion, destabilize the older version of the package
+on this architecture. Once there is a newer stable version on all architectures
+besides the ones not responding to the stable request, you may, at your
+discretion, remove the old stable version. Either of these actions can
+potentially break the stable tree for the given architecture, so if the
+package has reverse dependencies, either action should be coordinated with
+the maintainers of these dependencies.
+</p>
+
 </body>
 </section>