Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:17, foser wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 14:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > and it helps no one to go around cutting packages that have no
> > outstanding issues with them
>
> Sure it helps keep Gentoo clean and up-to-date, the load of packages
> that are outdated are often unmaintained as well. The one leads to the
> other. Anyway, nobody would know about outstanding issues that popped
> up, because there is no maintainer to assign them to.

and then people send out last-rites notices in those cases

> > there was an outstanding issue with cccc, but i resolved that
>
> How do you know you resolved it, you don't get bugreports on it do you ?

well the logical thing would be to go to bugzilla and search for "cccc" ... 
and guess what ?  no more open bug reports

> I mean, you aren't the maintainer. And there is still the outstanding
> issue that it is unmaintained in Gentoo, are you going to fix that or
> not ? Otherwise it should be masked and removed.

this is the same argument as already made and rejected ... feel free to mask 
and remove the hundreds of other packages that have no maintainer
-mike
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