From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD25E138802 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 274AA21C019; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de (mo-p05-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E487021C00D for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:35:13 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-AUTH: :IW0NeWCpcPchHrcnS4ebzBgQnKHTmUiSF2JlOcyz+57jTVMtVX7771HX5w== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 Received: from pinacolada.localnet (95-130-165-88.hsi.glasfaser-ostbayern.de [95.130.165.88]) by smtp.strato.de (jorabe mo8) (RZmta 31.14 AUTH) with ESMTPA id f073bdp12JSpcg for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:35:12 +0100 (CET) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.6.11-gentoo; KDE/4.10.0; x86_64; ; ) References: 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="nextPart6365421.6HoJxjk8Ry"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201302022035.14415.dilfridge@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d4bd370f-0c41-4316-a9d3-711d89896afd X-Archives-Hash: 871b9070b6e4a4ae3b9b1c4a2c58bf24 --nextPart6365421.6HoJxjk8Ry Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2013, 14:53:19 schrieb Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 Chv=C3=A1tal: > 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. >=20 > 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 remov= als=20 are necessary. Please however,=20 *** write meaningful log or mask messages *** !!! "Old and uses IMake" is not really a reason for treecleaning. "Fortify cras= h=20 on start and unuseable on fast machines" definitely is. Cheers, A =2D-=20 Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer=20 dilfridge@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ --nextPart6365421.6HoJxjk8Ry Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlENanIACgkQ3ao2Zwy3NWqkIwCbBY9yI4BSuBeqIOjjZru2kASD dvgAnixxiqvJmnUlFe6Xt9sDEkK1ZfkY =NiR/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6365421.6HoJxjk8Ry--