From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDlYo-0003zT-97 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:17:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j89GCZDJ000273; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:12:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j89GAlnJ024987 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:10:48 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EDlWR-00064L-KG for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:14:39 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EDlXu-0008P4-Tf for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:16:10 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:16:08 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] current metadata cleaning - maintainers needed Message-ID: <20050909171608.501caa0e@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1126272742.29257.37.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <20050909095847.GA29056@veller.net> <1126272742.29257.37.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Fri__9_Sep_2005_17_16_08_+0100_GI0FwtEUf6OUh2kV; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 8dac8cfe-9511-4811-ad0e-63dc6ecccc1e X-Archives-Hash: df8aaf9932457637e1674bb370d80b92 --Signature_Fri__9_Sep_2005_17_16_08_+0100_GI0FwtEUf6OUh2kV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:32:21 -0400 Chris Gianelloni 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). |=20 | 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 or is out of date to the extent that upstream don't consider it supported any more, or if it is unmaintained upstream and a better maintained replacement package exists, or if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? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Fri__9_Sep_2005_17_16_08_+0100_GI0FwtEUf6OUh2kV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDIbVK96zL6DUtXhERAqGPAKDjLf03hwU8caJKQA8/4e9V/mTVeQCg3a3r Xa2wLwPIF/2085rTGxH/g3s= =rR0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Fri__9_Sep_2005_17_16_08_+0100_GI0FwtEUf6OUh2kV-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list