From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiqBe-0002hl-5B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:57:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5G8tI8K007060; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:55:18 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5G8qGUd019187 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:52:16 GMT Received: from dsl-082-083-235-054.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.235.54] helo=[10.0.0.13]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1Diq7d-0000oD-Un for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:53:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/mbr.. what to do... From: Patrick Lauer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050617014143.5ef36ceb@localhost> References: <20050617014143.5ef36ceb@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GBYqit2sR7LolxqjzMNz" Organization: Gentoo Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:53:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1118911993.7951.23.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 27ad6944-a6bf-4ba4-9d5b-7844ff23ea9c X-Archives-Hash: 38feb6558c09a5cda7125f287aeb23fe --=-GBYqit2sR7LolxqjzMNz Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 maintain= ers. 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=3D96254 > Otherwise we should do something about the fate of this package. Either drop it or find a maintainer I guess.=20 Always a drag to see packages getting dropped, but if noone maintains them there's not much that can be done. Patrick --=20 Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move --=-GBYqit2sR7LolxqjzMNz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsT35qER3hOUoZM4RAp9+AJ9h2Lsgpr8eecQFNegduGrRJAgyhACfSOO+ e/oXinl8+c4YCd5eVbDzpHA= =eHT5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GBYqit2sR7LolxqjzMNz-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list