[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/gephex

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/gephex

[Peter Alfredsen]

+# Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> (15 Feb 2009)
+# Masking for removal in 30 days.
+# Fails to build with gcc-4.3, bug 250712
+media-video/gephex
+

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-video/gephex

[Duncan]

Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> posted
20090215212907.00a735b9@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on  Sun, 15 Feb 2009
21:29:07 +0100:

> +# Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> (15 Feb 2009) 
> +# Masking for removal in 30 days.
> +# Fails to build with gcc-4.3, bug 250712
> +media-video/gephex
> +

Shouldn't there be a bit more to it than that, something about it being 
maintainer-needed, or maintainer unwilling to work on it further, or 
upstream dead, or some combination of the above?  Just because it doesn't 
compile with the latest GCC isn't normally considered reason in itself to 
remove a package.

Also note that there's a "new" (April, 2007) version 0.4.4, on the site, 
that may work better with newer gcc than the 2005 version 0.4.3 that's 
the latest in our tree.  So maybe it well could be maintainer-needed, but 
that should be in the masking for removal reason, if so, and ideally, 
listed in the last rites announcement here, in case anyone's interested 
in taking a look at it.

That said, I don't have any particular interest in it, so I don't have a 
problem with it disappearing.  I just found the ONLY reason given an 
uncommon enough reason for removal on its own that it warranted comment, 
is all.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-video/gephex

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 16/02/2009 07:17, Duncan a écrit :
> That said, I don't have any particular interest in it, so I don't have a
> problem with it disappearing.  I just found the ONLY reason given an
> uncommon enough reason for removal on its own that it warranted comment,
> is all.
>

Hence the 30-day period when removing packages. Interested users/devs 
have enough time to come forward and pick it up if they want to.

Cheers,

Rémi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-video/gephex

[Ryan Hill]

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:17:04 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> posted
> 20090215212907.00a735b9@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on  Sun, 15 Feb
> 2009 21:29:07 +0100:
> 
> > +# Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> (15 Feb 2009) 
> > +# Masking for removal in 30 days.
> > +# Fails to build with gcc-4.3, bug 250712
> > +media-video/gephex
> > +
> 
> Shouldn't there be a bit more to it than that, something about it
> being maintainer-needed, or maintainer unwilling to work on it
> further, or upstream dead, or some combination of the above?  Just
> because it doesn't compile with the latest GCC isn't normally
> considered reason in itself to remove a package.
> 
> Also note that there's a "new" (April, 2007) version 0.4.4, on the
> site, that may work better with newer gcc than the 2005 version 0.4.3
> that's the latest in our tree.  So maybe it well could be
> maintainer-needed, but that should be in the masking for removal
> reason, if so, and ideally, listed in the last rites announcement
> here, in case anyone's interested in taking a look at it.
> 
> That said, I don't have any particular interest in it, so I don't
> have a problem with it disappearing.  I just found the ONLY reason
> given an uncommon enough reason for removal on its own that it
> warranted comment, is all.

read the bug.


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