From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDjQh-0005mt-1k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:00:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j89Du0Cp029106; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:56:00 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j89DsICM028745 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:54:18 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j89DxtYM022118 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:59:56 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:57:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43218E3D.3080206@egr.msu.edu> References: <20050909113006.TA94a0d.tv@veller.net> <200509090846.19328.vapier@gentoo.org> <43218E3D.3080206@egr.msu.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YcvvjfiAKWe3uTA3Hzaz" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:57:08 -0400 Message-Id: <1126274228.29257.48.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 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 231c9f27-c438-406f-bad1-33989a83d0a9 X-Archives-Hash: ce98f97740199b0d885e9a00aa82adeb --=-YcvvjfiAKWe3uTA3Hzaz Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 09:29 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > > and then what ? if you're proposing removal of packages due solely to = no=20 > > maintainer, then we're going to have to slap you around. dont remove=20 > > packages for that reason alone. > > -mike >=20 > So I guess the idea would then be, how do you find packages in the tree > where dev FooGuy once maintained it but no longer does (because FooGuy > left) and the package is old and nasty and no one cares about it. Leave > it in the tree anyway? I certainly don't want unmaintained CRAP in the > tree, although unmaintained decent programs are good. By decent I mean > programs that are generally so old they never have version bumps ;) The simple rule is leave it the hell alone. If it is completely broken, there will be bugs filed. If nobody steps up to claim the package, then, and only then, is it removed. Did you look at the list of packages? I mean, how exactly broken can "descent1-maps" get? *grin* Package removal because it has no maintainer would probably remove a large portion of the tree, possibly even packages that are necessary for many people. There's quite a few packages that get maintained simply by people fixing problems with them, but with no real "maintainer". While this isn't the best solution, removing them from the tree just for this reason is asinine. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-YcvvjfiAKWe3uTA3Hzaz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQBDIZS0kT4lNIS36YERAssUAJ0X1Mu+MfKIZf2+X8qrOL09tHWbuACY9cj4 kNXI2ueGCvUHVTg/+Kujew== =HsTP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YcvvjfiAKWe3uTA3Hzaz-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list