On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:56:43PM +0100, Michal Schorm wrote:
> Small technical concern:
>
> i686 packages depending on each other as follows:
> A ---> B ---> C ---> D ---> E ---> F ---> G
> When a maintainer of package "D" decides to stop building the package
> "D" for i686 ("ExcludeArch: %{ix86}"), how do we ensure the packages
> "E", "F", "G" will also adopt the "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}" instead of
> FTBFS (or FTI) on i686 arch ?
>
> The original change proposal is about _leaf_ packages, which I
> understand as only package "G" in my example.
> And the maintainer of "D" has to wait on the maintainer of "E" has to
> wait on the maintainer of "F" has to wait on the maintainer of "G" to
> stop building it for i686.
>
> As voices appeared proposing to get rid of _all_ i686 but necessary
> instead (which has +1 from me), I'm unsure whether the goal of the
> original proposal changed.
>
> I'm just asking to make sure whether that's somehow covered.
I think this is covered in the original proposal:
- initially only G is candidate for exclusion
- once G has been excluded, F becomes a candidate
- once F has been excluded, E becomes a candidate
…
The maintainer of D must take no action until D is a leaf.
Zbyszek
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