Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/mbr.. what to do...

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:41 +0900, Chris White wrote:
> I just saw a bug report flow by for app-admin/mbr and looked for maintainers.  I found this:
> ChangeLog: 1 manson, 1 woodchip
> from jeeves.  Now, I think those people are retired, or I need to get out more (or both).  So what to do with said package.  It looks pretty old and this user wants it bumped so...  I'd do it but I have no solid test method and I really don't like putting out packages without one.
I think this problem is not limited to this package.
Maybe someone with some scripting skillz could create a list of all
"orphaned" packages?
(no metadata.xml, no active maintainer, ...)

> If anyone is interested, the bug number is here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96254
> Otherwise we should do something about the fate of this package.
Either drop it or find a maintainer I guess. 
Always a drag to see packages getting dropped, but if noone maintains
them there's not much that can be done.

Patrick
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