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From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:03:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106210317.da2c9676.genone@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071106161512.GA21625@aerie.halcy0n.com>

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:15:12 -0500
Mark Loeser <mark@halcy0n.com> wrote:

> Just to get a wider audience involved in this...this just seems wrong
> to do.  There is a QA bug open about it as well:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198248
> 
> What are other people's feelings on using package moves to forcibly
> migrate people like this?  It also sounds like this wasn't announced
> at all and the packages just left the tree.

A package move via "update" file is simply an extension of a mv
command. If you also had to edit the ebuild a package move is generally
not the right thing to do. Remember that a package move applies to all
versions of a package, and upstream name changes are generally tied to
specific versions.

Marius
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1IpCox-0008Sj-Sg@stork.gentoo.org>
2007-11-06 16:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007 Mark Loeser
2007-11-06 16:25   ` Doug Klima
2007-11-06 19:18   ` Petteri Räty
2007-11-06 20:03   ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2007-11-06 21:23     ` [gentoo-dev] EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007) Jim Ramsay
2007-11-07 14:09       ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-07 18:37         ` Santiago M. Mola
2007-11-08  4:50       ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers

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