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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:10:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050909171018.1752c046@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050909113006.TA94a0d.tv@veller.net>

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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:58:21 +0200 Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Well, i was told that adding the maintainer-needed herd is not a good
| idea and it is best to remove metadata.xml if no valuable information
| remains.
| 
| I couldn't find information on that. Can somebody explain?

maintainer-needed isn't a herd, it's an alias. On the same subject,
no-herd isn't legal in metadata.xml either. Both of these are
metastructure policy matters, so changing them requires a GLEP.

A GLEP probably wouldn't be a bad idea, either... The way the tree is
maintained has changed considerably over the past few years. In
particular, herds are no longer a fallback for when the maintainer
(single person) is not available.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-09 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-09  9:58 [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages Torsten Veller
2005-09-09 12:24 ` Jakub Moc
2005-09-09 12:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-09 13:29   ` Alec Warner
2005-09-09 13:57     ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-09 15:23   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-09 16:06     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-09 13:35 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-09 16:10 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-09-09 17:36   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-09 17:49   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-09 18:08     ` Ciaran McCreesh

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