Keywording and stabilization¶
Rekeywording on dropped keywords¶
- PG:
0401
- Source:
QA
- Reported:
by pkgcheck and repoman
The developer removing keywords from a package (e.g. due to new dependencies) must file a rekeywording bug asking for the package being retested. This rule can be exempted if the package is known not to work (anymore) on the arch in question.
Rationale: rekeywording on minor architectures often takes a long time. If a developer neglects to request it immediately, it negatively affects other developers who in the future either want to stabilize a new version or to remove an old version.
Stabilizing new versions¶
- PG:
0402
- Source:
QA
- Reported:
by pkgcheck
Whenever requesting a stabilization of a new version of the package, the developer must CC all arches that had at least one previous stable version of the package in question, and that still have ~arch keywords in the stabilized version. This applies to experimental architectures as well.
The stabilization request can be closed and old stable version removed once all non-experimental architectures have processed the stabilization request. However, the remaining arch teams should be kept CC-ed in case they wanted to process the bug.
Rationale: there were some cases of developers requesting stabilization only of a subset of architectures they were personally interested in. This meant some other developer had to independently request stabilization on remaining architectures which only meant a duplication of effort and unnecessary confusion over which version is stable and whether arch teams are slacking or stabilization was not requested on remaining architectures in the first place.
Removing stable keywords¶
- PG:
0403
- Source:
QA
- Reference:
- Reported:
n/a
Stable keywords (or the last stable version) can be removed from a package if the relevant arch team does not respond within 90 days. If the removal causes a breakage of dependency graph, the developer must work with maintainers of the depending packages before proceeding with it.
The policy for removing a package must be followed here, with exception of last rite mails.