From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] quixote currently unmaintained
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:43:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051101174316.GA13355@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511011804.19446.carlo@gentoo.org>
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:04:08PM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Monday 31 October 2005 22:44, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > Checked the bugzilla and the two open bugs seem to be version bumps. I
> > think the policy is not to remove working ebuilds from the tree although
> > they are not maintained by anyone.
>
> It's not policy to keep unmaintained stuff in the repository either.
You are technically correct in the sense that there is literally no
policy stating "keep unmaintained stuff in the repository."
However, going around removing things simply because they're
unmaintained is no good. Unmaintained and broken is a different story.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-31 21:41 [gentoo-dev] quixote currently unmaintained Grant Goodyear
2005-10-31 21:44 ` Petteri Räty
2005-11-01 17:04 ` Carsten Lohrke
2005-11-01 17:11 ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2005-11-01 17:40 ` Carsten Lohrke
2005-11-01 17:55 ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2005-11-01 17:43 ` Jon Portnoy [this message]
2005-11-01 18:40 ` Carsten Lohrke
2005-11-01 18:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-11-01 19:39 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-01 17:25 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-01 20:22 ` Grant Goodyear
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