On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 22:49 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain only python > > code (or perl, ruby), or only LaTeX classes, or only documentation. It > > makes no sense to test them on each arch separately. I think maintainers > > should be allowed to stabilize such packages (with no compiled code) on > > all arches. > > There is a reason we don't do this, back in Gentoo history somewhere, but I > don't remember what it was. > > If someone can tell us why this isn't allowed I am all ears. Otherwise, > I could agree on this point as well.
Speaking for ruby I have seen various arch-related bugs in pure ruby code. It doesn't happen a lot (maybe 1% of stable requests) but it is also not predictable. I also like the second set of eyes verifying what we've done as part of marking a package stable, so I probably would still file bugs rather than marking stuff stable myself. Hans
