From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <al3x@al3x.net> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26448AC38F for <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:58:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from washdc3-ar2-180-104.elnk.dsl.gtei.net ([4.43.180.104] helo=tenka.dynu.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16zRDa-0001ft-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:58:06 -0700 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:51:48 -0400 From: al3x payne <al3x@al3x.net> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20020421195148.25f2202f.al3x@al3x.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] !!!Really worried about ebuild updates! Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-request@gentoo.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev>, <mailto:gentoo-dev-request@gentoo.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev>, <mailto:gentoo-dev-request@gentoo.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/> X-Archives-Salt: be421c9c-50cc-45ff-a4e1-abe24fa1ce15 X-Archives-Hash: 06862115448c21d0cc8369f89d3618ee To whom it may concern: I'm really concerned about the number of ebuilds that are rapidly becoming out of date. I started using Gentoo, in part, because of the currency of its packages and the ease of updates. While I understand that users can submit upgrade requests via bugs.gentoo.org, few package maintainers seem to be responding to these. I'm sure I'm not alone in worrying that Gentoo packages will go the way of Debian: "dedicated" package maintainers that update once in a blue moon. Gentoo has, I would say, an even more elegant system than apt-get; please don't let it go to waste on antiquated ebuilds. So this doesn't happen, was can we users do, proactively, to help developers? Clearly filing "please update" bugs isn't enough. I don't want to just complain; I want to help. What can we do? Thanks for your time and hard work! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ al3x payne e: al3x@al3x.net w: http://www.al3x.net p: 202.841.4706 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++