gentoo-overlay/metadata/news/2013-09-22-minor-arches-1/2013-09-22-minor-arches-1.en.txt

Title: m68k, s390, sh are dropping stable keywords                                                                                                                                     
Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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Posted: 2013-09-22
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Following discussion [1] and a vote by the Gentoo Council [2,3], 
m68k, s390, and sh will drop all stable keywords and become 
unstable/testing only arches. The main reason for this is that 
these arch teams visibly lack manpower, resulting in undesirable
delays.

In a week, the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in the respective profiles
will be switched to automatically include ~arch packages. Systems
running stable before will update to current unstable/testing then.
Afterwards m68k, s390, and sh keywords on all ebuilds will be
changed to ~m68k, ~s390, and ~sh.

No steps are required from users, however you should be aware
of the upcoming changes.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2975/focus=2984
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917.txt
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt