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 1DivAx-0002Xz-Fu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:16:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5GED90P010310; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:13:09 GMT Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5GE9vDo020142 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:09:58 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5GEBBsK003804 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:11:11 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:10:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/mbr.. what to do... From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1118911993.7951.23.camel@localhost> References: <20050617014143.5ef36ceb@localhost> <1118911993.7951.23.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-192uWxBFMog8A7dlCHmO" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:10:26 -0400 Message-Id: <1118931027.14164.54.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> 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 2.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: 06b6919e-789c-47d0-b645-6830bef1356b X-Archives-Hash: 84f60eb925c97a8cae81c2ff791bd79e --=-192uWxBFMog8A7dlCHmO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:53 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > 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 mainta= iners. I found this: > > ChangeLog: 1 manson, 1 woodchip > > from jeeves. Now, I think those people are retired, or I need to get o= ut more (or both). So what to do with said package. It looks pretty old a= nd this user wants it bumped so... I'd do it but I have no solid test meth= od and I really don't like putting out packages without one. Ehh... the user that filed the bug could test it for you. > 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, ...) Yes, it would be nice to get a list of these packages, but *not* for removing them. In many cases these packages "work" and have no bugs filed against them, so what is gained by removing them? > > 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. How about leave it alone? I can understand if there is no maintainer and there are a ton of bugs filed against it (or even just one critical one), but for a package where the only "bug" is a version bump request? Just ask the user to test the ebuild, then commit it. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-192uWxBFMog8A7dlCHmO 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 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsYhSkT4lNIS36YERAvULAJsFTQcWL5oGZHb3v3eWZ5b0sjPMxACfZJpK 9JapZuePJAZfNrfMLhVh+m0= =CC/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-192uWxBFMog8A7dlCHmO-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list