From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] current metadata cleaning - maintainers needed
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:16:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050909171608.501caa0e@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126272742.29257.37.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net>
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:32:21 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
<wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:58 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
| > (take it if you want, otherwise it might be removed from the tree).
|
| No. It goes to maintainer-needed and only is a candidate for removal
| if it is broken or has a serious security flaw and isn't patched
| upstream.
... or is out of date to the extent that upstream don't consider it
supported any more, or if it is unmaintained upstream and a better
maintained replacement package exists, or if it has dependencies upon a
version of a package which is being removed.
Really though, wouldn't this be an ideal opportunity to remove the odd
bit of dross from the tree? I mean, take fortune-mod-gentoo-forums for
example... Is it really worth keeping around?
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 9:58 [gentoo-dev] current metadata cleaning - maintainers needed Torsten Veller
2005-09-09 13:32 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-09 16:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-09-09 15:51 ` Mike Frysinger
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