From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpUi1-0008QC-8b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:07:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA6K6hsb014641; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:06:43 GMT Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslb-082-083-021-024.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.21.24]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA6K4loe012057 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:04:47 GMT Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id 42546280F6; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:02:36 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 (2007-02-13) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_05 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 Received: from sheridan (sheridan [192.168.0.40]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FA9628015 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:02:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:03:17 +0100 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007 Message-Id: <20071106210317.da2c9676.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20071106161512.GA21625@aerie.halcy0n.com> References: <20071106161512.GA21625@aerie.halcy0n.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-mingw32) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96a90f99-fafc-4436-b962-a8cffc53dfd8 X-Archives-Hash: c6cef84f837fc878aa754d17866f1d03 On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:15:12 -0500 Mark Loeser 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list