Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival

2020-04-11 Thread Andreas K . Hüttel
> > => Keep it simple: Stable should mean the same across all architectures OK, this is a definite statement, so stable remains stable, and we introduce no additionally different status. I'd recommend that you drop the "security-supported arches" list from the security team web page too. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival

2020-04-11 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
Hi, regarding "security supported architectures" a few words from security project: We don't like the differentiation. And in practice, it doesn't even matter nor does it work: In theory, "security supported architectures" would allow us to ignore bugs only affecting specific architectures. But

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival

2020-04-10 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 13:37 +0300, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. April 2020, 09:58:37 EEST schrieb Michał Górny: > > 1. 'Broken' status was removed, as it is redundant to profile status. > > > > 2. State names were changed from 'testing' and 'unstable' to 'degraded' > >(broken

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival

2020-04-10 Thread Andreas K . Hüttel
Am Freitag, 10. April 2020, 09:58:37 EEST schrieb Michał Górny: > > 1. 'Broken' status was removed, as it is redundant to profile status. > > 2. State names were changed from 'testing' and 'unstable' to 'degraded' >(broken stable tree) and 'testing' (pure ~arch) to avoid confusion. > Back

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 00/10] GLEP 72 (arches.desc) revival

2020-04-10 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, I've just found another use case for arches.desc, so I'd like to revive dilfridge's GLEP. I tried to keep the changes to minimum, while addressing earlier concerns. Besides wording changes and clarifications, the following significant changes were made: 1. 'Broken' status was removed, as