From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12279 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 13:44:43 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Jul 2004 13:44:43 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BgOLK-0004o4-1D for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:44:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 31584 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jul 2004 13:44:41 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7400 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 13:44:41 +0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <1088772514.16422.39.camel@localhost> References: <40E4B84B.1040501@scms.waikato.ac.nz> <43062.205.241.48.33.1088734649.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> <1088772514.16422.39.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Message-Id: <1088775875.12020.127.camel@rattus.Localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:44:35 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for retirement of old gentoo 'versions' X-Archives-Salt: 0ee6fc79-fe93-4e97-8f6d-2bb8bbcea75a X-Archives-Hash: 896a1385db4c1a520487636153fa7d36 A few weeks back I filed a bug (since closed, but not resolved to my satisfaction) on the premature removal of mm-sources and the fact that no stable version was left in portage. This had the effect of breaking a number of perfectly working systems and leaving no alternative but to move to another kernel as the masked versions did not work (at the time) - a major hassle. Without a kernel of that package in portage, packages that depended on the installed kernel to build broke and couldnt be installed. I for one would like to see a policy for this as I feel that mm-sources was done at the whim of a dev who was looking at his future, and wasnt willing to consider the user base, leaving quite a number of us stranded. His justification seemed to be that mm-sources should be considered a dev package, so I should not have bothered - bug closed. BillK On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 20:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Barry Shaw said: > > > Is there any policy/ideas/consensus among developers about how long a -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list