Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:29:13 Mark Loeser wrote:
> Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> said:
> > I've remove the mask for games-fps/openarena.
> > 
> > The mask was done without consulting the games team.
> 
> This is no reason to remove the mask.  The games team had more than
> enough time to fix the package.  I'll be adding the mask back as the
> package is vulnerable via multiple bundled libs and therefore shouldn't
> be in the tree.  You can apply the patches if you want to keep it and
> remove the mask at that time.
> 
> Thanks,
This thread is yet another proof that we need to introduce a "Upcoming 
masking" for unmaintained packages.

Instead of first masking a package and then announce it, we can simply announce 
that we are gonna mask the package in 10days if there is no activity on the 
respective bug
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

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