rb3-distributor-responsibility-reassessment.json

{
  "android_specific_rule": {
    "page_alignment_bytes": 16384,
    "reason": "Android platform compatibility property affected by the distributed binaries and the SDK linker policy supplied by this distribution",
    "responsibility": "distributor"
  },
  "authority_kind": "epoch3-rb3-distributor-responsibility-reassessment",
  "claim_boundary": {
    "portable_user_built_wheel_claim": false,
    "profile_M_selected": true,
    "publication": false,
    "rb3_closed": false,
    "selectable": false,
    "wheel_repair_tool_claim": false
  },
  "decision_basis": "Astral-thin responsibility follows the distributed Python artifact and Android-specific ABI/runtime requirements; repair of later user-created wheels belongs to the user or external packaging tooling",
  "diagnostic_only_for_user_built_wheels": [
    "DT_NEEDED inventory",
    "RPATH and RUNPATH inventory",
    "wheel filename, hash, size, and extension identity"
  ],
  "distributor_hard_gates": [
    "deterministic distributed artifact bytes and receipts",
    "distributed archive structure, manifest, checksums, relocation, runtime, subprocess, venv, and claimed uv consumer paths",
    "distributed native ELF dependency closure and absence of accidental host or Termux identity in distributed artifact bytes",
    "truthful Android target identity and API floor",
    "profile M native extension build, installation, and import capability",
    "16 KiB LOAD alignment for every distributed ELF object",
    "16 KiB LOAD alignment for the baseline extension produced by the SDK compile and link flags supplied by profile M"
  ],
  "explicitly_out_of_scope": [
    "automatic removal of RPATH or RUNPATH from user-built wheels",
    "auditwheel-like dependency repair or bundling",
    "patchelf postprocessing of user-built extensions",
    "repackaging or publication portability of user-created wheels",
    "reproducibility of arbitrary user package builds"
  ],
  "project_action": {
    "built_in_repair_feature": "do-not-implement-in-upstream-thin-product",
    "historical_explicit_normalization_evidence": "retained as historical experiment evidence but removed from current RB-3 acceptance and successor audit gates",
    "possible_future_work": "separate toy project or external Android wheel repair tool"
  },
  "schema_version": 1,
  "status": "accepted-current-design-boundary"
}