x86_64 blocks i386?

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Mar 21 08:38:12 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 23:01 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michael Schwendt (bugs.michael at gmx.net) said: 
> > Since I only just noticed that the requested rebuilds for gpgme and
> > gpgme03 in FE Development were not published, because they failed on
> > x86_64, I got to ask:
> > 
> > When and where has it been decided that x86_64 blocks i386?
> 
> Well, if you want to play by the same rules as Core, any 
> arch failure blocks all arches. There have been arguments, of
> course, as to how well this rule works. :)

It has worked well for me in the past, I didn't need to be kicked in the
butt to fix problems on "other" arches. But then I'm only re-stating
what I already said ;-).

Nils
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