Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it

[Christian Hoffmann <hoffie@gentoo.org>]

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On 2007-10-11 at 07:58 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote:

> Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>:
> 
> > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:13:49 +0200
> > Christian Hoffmann <hoffie@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > I'm going to p.mask =dev-lang/php-4* and all packages explicitly
> > > depending on this version of php (i.e. the whole dev-php4/
> > > category (36 packages) and one webapp, www-apps/knowledgetree,
> > > bug 194894 [1]) next weekend (around Oct 14th). This step is
> > > necessary as there is hardly any upstream activity anymore.
> > You should probably post that in a more user-oriented channel, like
> > gentoo-announce and/or the forums to reduce the number of
> > "surprised" users [1]
Ok, haven't seen the thread, but it's probably a very good idea to
post something to -announce / forums anyway. I'll do that later today.

We'll also move the date of masking to Oct 18th, so that the wider
userbase has one full week time to "prepare" for the masking as well. :)


>  Or even write a short summary for the GWN...they would be happy about
> it.
I already submitted something on the same day I sent the
-dev{,-announce} mail.

-- 
Christian Hoffmann
Gentoo PHP herd

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