On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:32:25 +0000 (UTC)
"Diego Petteno (flameeyes)" <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:

> flameeyes    12/10/31 16:32:25
> 
>   Modified:             boost-1.46.1-r1.ebuild metadata.xml
>                         boost-1.49.0-r1.ebuild ChangeLog
>   Added:                boost-1.51.0-r1.ebuild
>   Removed:              boost-1.47.0.ebuild boost-1.35.0-r2.ebuild
>                         boost-1.47.0-r1.ebuild boost-1.39.0.ebuild
>                         boost-1.50.0-r2.ebuild boost-1.42.0-r1.ebuild
>                         boost-1.51.0.ebuild boost-1.37.0-r1.ebuild
>                         boost-1.42.0-r2.ebuild boost-1.50.0.ebuild
>                         boost-1.48.0-r2.ebuild boost-1.42.0.ebuild
>                         boost-1.35.0-r5.ebuild boost-1.41.0-r3.ebuild
>                         boost-1.45.0.ebuild
>   Log:
>   Unslotting. This removes a bunch of older packages that will not build on modern systems, keeps only three versions (stable, mostly-stable and masked). The new 1.51.0-r1 is designed so that it does not have to do any eselect or eselect-like trickery for the symlinks, also drops the tests (which are not working as expected anyway).
>   
>   (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha141/cvs/Linux x86_64, signed Manifest commit with key 1CD13C8AD4301342)

What is this policy of performing widespread destructive changes while:

a) you haven't pinged any of the maintainers of the package nor waited
for their reply,

b) you have ignored output from one of the maintainers of the package,

c) you have committed changes *1 day* after submitting RFC to the ml,
effectively ignoring output of people who do not read the ml daily,

d) you have dropped maintainers from the package without asking,

e) you haven't given our users or overlays any ability of testing them,

f) you have introduced destructive changes to stable systems,

g) and after all, you aren't even maintainer of this package nor member
of the cpp herd.

In other words, you have thrown a big, destructive change to live,
stable systems without prior testing (and don't say you were able to
test it thoroughly in one day's time) and you have left them for other
people to maintain and fix.

I am really getting tired of those 'senior developers' who believe that
Gentoo is their private playground where they can do whatever comes
into their mind and ignore package maintainers.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny