From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NUnQO-0006XU-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:33:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A3F3E08F2; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABB0E08F2 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42E91B4154; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:33:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:33:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32.2; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Jeremy Olexa References: <201001112305.16532.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <4B4BD225.5030308@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5521731.VLzpfXmSzI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001121533.08479.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3860bd39-3153-402c-96ae-2d43337d9dc2 X-Archives-Hash: d8434b52f8d6b1cf6156cfb69c18ec57 --nextPart5521731.VLzpfXmSzI Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 11 January 2010 22:43:18 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:37 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: > > On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote: > >> As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by this. > > > > Yeah, inn seems like a really high-profile package to mask for removal. > > It would be conspicuous in its absence. > > > > Would it make sense to post on -dev BEFORE masking packages like this? > > I'm sure there are lots of people who would chip in before something > > like this dies. >=20 > (A general reply, not targeted towards you, Rich) >=20 > Speaking on behalf of the treecleaners: > The fact is, some of us have never heard of "inn" and until Gentoo has > some sort of "popularity tracking" software/tool, the treecleaners will > continue to mask unmaintained software. We can't possible know about every > package in the tree and if it looks like it is unmaintained (open bugs w/o > action) then we will mask it for removal unless someone fixes it and > maintains it. you need to fix your filter then. an "open bug" is not an acceptable reaso= n=20 for masking a package. if you're going to clean a package, you need to=20 research actual reasons to mask & punt. =2Dmike --nextPart5521731.VLzpfXmSzI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLTNyEAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBUEEP/2Ai+ZfRh+9DvyYRenN8c4Hu cGIDN8rPQ1oeHLjuV94p20IcRwPyXGgP68fI2Gr0vqQnyc+4bBjGo/VTNnth0QAD Iq7bDoWFIbA4xXv8ydnT7uY59Blrf5nnrihMo1272jOgX+F02KxeXRpEclTE+zd3 +EVvxpSbpajsxQpVbpYHNj88a6aAgl6hG1m/dbeXULubmI6pjVXObPJB76aDHz2w ymAC8XI4xV4DYpPejlLXjSPgnPMSYob/d9lvLhQgOPHtPR/tnuwwW/lbS1tboKKW HbbXZfW15COT/m/PiBitvZ0tf9xwgcmVpq/ObKSOFJqFccYeDQuYoJ09KVAGgy6J CDUnkMnC8qRT+y/9hxHIzkGAqJivB00wJJ+8nlcArr5ChuDwfzZ0ehwICISj5r/N e8ydLWHXSEhnIDBTYKz6gF3SVwj9W9ft2a1FQeQaf9iDzdttCYhnDv3Rz0EY6ZFH BgW2+4F2uDC+M+dOZG8Fg4g8R3x1o34vNCZQtCfyZmCoR6z+B/btUOBl1Sun1doF VV68qso5y0tGA8DHnA0b/2imscVQuFZF0PX/Dk17r0S+DzHx4IlmaYqCu22+SaYl TCD+a1JitQy+KkTNBSrEcc1CODJm+df1WzbTldE1FnPfRqKz2qCygax11LsT0fN4 Ut/t6ysPEVUVAnMCrakF =bgCt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5521731.VLzpfXmSzI--