On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:53 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
this should be combined with "arch-maintainers" who can
checkin
patches across all packages if the changes do fix arch-specific code.
Yes, it should. I think that's already part of Spot's proposal.
I've effectively been doing that job for PowerPC for a while already¹.
Which is why I know that half the 'suddenly failed to build' bugs are
actually generic problems which the package owner should care about, and
not really arch-specific at all. And that's just the ones which got as
far as an ExcludeArch -- the trivial ones which the maintainer fixed for
herself aren't included, and I suspect those are even _more_ likely to
be generic bugs rather than arch-specific.
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dwmw2
¹ although the recent restriction on commit access to Fedora packages has
been _very_ unhelpful.