From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1zeZ-0004CF-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:40:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1A50E0288; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764DDE0288 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (unknown [77.246.104.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0CE64D94 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grab From: Peter Volkov To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1226866406.14742.3.camel@keitaro> References: <1226866406.14742.3.camel@keitaro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:40:01 +0300 Message-Id: <1226911201.29440.13.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ab7c9ab0-0df8-405a-953e-ef5e1a430d51 X-Archives-Hash: 19cec7537f2f037107aa2e0b59527bfc =D0=92 =D0=92=D1=81=D0=BA, 16/11/2008 =D0=B2 21:13 +0100, Gilles Dartigue= longue =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > here is a list of packages gnome herd would like to get rid of since > no-one seem to take care of them and users are not so verbose about it > either: >=20 > * app-text/ggv https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D223427 Upstream there was a discussion of interest. Pointing at random mail in that tread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2006-July/msg00008.html So there are people which prefer ggv over evince... > * net-news/straw https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D187285 This bug is already fixed since straw-0.27 is in the tree. > * net-news/logjam https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D181236 > If no-one takes them, I'll proceed to package removal. This are the cases where removal is not a best solution. straw and logjam have upstream so it's better to move them into Sunrise: users who use this packages could maintain them there... For ggv it seems that it's better to leave it as is. May be just stabilize the most recent version - let arch teams test it and if it works no need to remove it from the tree. --=20 Peter.