On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 20.02.2010 14:05, schrieb Allan McRae:
Hi,
This is an idea I have been thinking about for a while. One disadvantage of rolling release (at least with how we implement it), is that some packages do not get rebuilt in a long time. That can mean policy changes never get fully implemented (e.g. removal of .FILELIST from packages, moving man pages to /usr/share/man, LDFLAGS changes, arch=any, etc). Also, new toolchains bring new optimizations that are good to have.
I would like to propose that we ensure no package in the repos goes unbuilt for more than a year. Looking at the current state of the repos, this should not be too much of a hassle once we catch up. There are about 12 packages in [core] and 120 packages in [extra] that currently have not been rebuild for more than a year. So, that indicates new packages to be rebuilt would occur at a rate of about two a week.
I like it, if we get archweb support for being notified on such occasions.
I'm going to add build date as a field to archweb soon enough, so this will be quite easy to query and get a list of relevant packages once that is done. -Dan