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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply - please write adequate log messages!
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:35:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302022035.14415.dilfridge@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Nrkpd2E6KQQOt6FEN9eVdzcw9kpr06gbzUBOcFSj5rPbKPXw@mail.gmail.com>

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Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2013, 14:53:19 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal:
> just to be sure here "Removals are completely up to the maintainer to
> decide", with expection of QA removal where the package must be
> already broken to get punted.
> 
> If you as developers and users find some package useful you can retake
> the maintainership (or became proxy-maint) which also expects you to
> take care of the bugs (QA can prune it even if you take the
> maintainership but ignore failures [even if your personal feeling is
> that it is corner case, it is for QA to deicde]).

I agree 100% that we should not accumulate cruft in the tree and that removals 
are necessary. Please however, 

*** write meaningful log or mask messages *** !!!

"Old and uses IMake" is not really a reason for treecleaning. "Fortify crash 
on start and unuseable on fast machines" definitely is.

Cheers, A

-- 

Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-02 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-01 13:53 [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to) Tomáš Chvátal
2013-02-01 14:52 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-01 17:00   ` Tomáš Chvátal
2013-02-01 17:05     ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-02 19:35 ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]

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