From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:30:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1535653805.1078.1.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180829120123.a14bec29f4b2a239170c2860@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 12:01 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 03:20:31 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
> wrote:
> > # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> (29 Aug 2015)
> > # Masked for removal in 30 days. Multiple build failures. Upstream inactive.
> > # (bugs #321017, #581284, #588692, #602786, #649006, #654140)
> > www-plugins/gnash
>
>
> Is there any replacement available? AFAIK no, at least among free
> software. And there still many sites which require flash to work.
>
> So maybe mask it, but not remove?
>
Maybe it's time you realize that if you want something to stay, then you
need to actually *take it* and *fix it*. Keeping clearly broken stuff
so that every user could try jumping through a few hoops to build it has
no value.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 1:20 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-08-29 9:01 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-30 18:23 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-08-30 18:30 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2018-08-30 18:36 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-08-30 18:37 ` Michał Górny
2018-08-30 18:50 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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2009-09-04 20:17 Rémi Cardona
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