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 4.50) id 1EX0DH-0007AU-V0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:46:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1Hjh6k019780; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:45:43 GMT Received: from outbound1.mail.tds.net (outbound1.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1HhKur030211 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:43:21 GMT Received: from outaamta02.mail.tds.net (outaamta02.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.32]) by outbound1.mail.tds.net (8.13.4/8.12.2) with ESMTP id jA1HhIag010791 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:43:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from cerberus.oppresses.us ([69.21.248.131]) by outaamta02.mail.tds.net with ESMTP id <20051101174317.KFNO15375.outaamta02.mail.tds.net@cerberus.oppresses.us> for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:43:17 -0600 Received: by cerberus.oppresses.us (Postfix, from userid 500) id 600BC4ABFB; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:43:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:43:16 -0500 From: Jon Portnoy To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] quixote currently unmaintained Message-ID: <20051101174316.GA13355@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <20051031214102.GA22683@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <43669037.2070609@gentoo.org> <200511011804.19446.carlo@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511011804.19446.carlo@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jA1HhKur030211 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jA1Hjh8M019780 X-Archives-Salt: 08b5b798-43b0-421b-8b09-8f78520413c6 X-Archives-Hash: 7cdb2041ec1a28a389da5a04943d1dcf On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:04:08PM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Monday 31 October 2005 22:44, Petteri R=E4ty 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 altho= ugh > > they are not maintained by anyone. >=20 > It's not policy to keep unmaintained stuff in the repository either. You are technically correct in the sense that there is literally no=20 policy stating "keep unmaintained stuff in the repository." However, going around removing things simply because they're=20 unmaintained is no good. Unmaintained and broken is a different story. --=20 Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list