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 545BE13877A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:23:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4FBEE0937; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f51.google.com (mail-oa0-f51.google.com [209.85.219.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0C5AE08F6 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id j17so9538343oag.38 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:22:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=ilmn+rrvJjHjViZpfx51guvHbIhfx9yw44vsYtxAn54=; b=NUI9o6RiRJsF1MBm96O73EZlowtfgJUwt4y+U9o9O+YswaMplt2+m+WUkC0jcueXPK e+2nHNKROZDE7ESwmA0CUBeWSl7ZJdVqUxay+6GD9Gg9+59USYp6i/GRCg0nlVeOxCVX RNDkRY7Wr+3C8UpZxXchFJFT+s7ejYkyVBTSG35sUuNg0RYvBcmkDwwfSnexx0L1CYjP ucTfT7+2HqMZ02on+SbdC82kzUnexdHX7SUiQBKmpdHMFTC8OyIkUkYmw+SnH/qT5qJq jdT/asoOmojM0NqKENOye4n9JP7rax7B9gsml7x0umBL2NByuKNj+S82fdXpQ2hoXpIY v4mA== X-Received: by 10.182.76.38 with SMTP id h6mr45234157obw.8.1404163372860; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-91-128.tx.res.rr.com. [76.187.91.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id to6sm38943289obb.6.2014.06.30.14.22.50 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: (nullmailer pid 3425 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:22:49 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:22:49 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries Message-ID: <20140630212249.GA3345@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20140630163851.GB2521@linux1> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: bded42da-2aa0-4751-9bd3-b4d683b53513 X-Archives-Hash: eb4049c90ed65f70f6311588ce9d37fc --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:46:04PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs wro= te: > > All, > > > > Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old > > package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the > > description. > > > > Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These > > should be cleaned up by either 1) removing the mask or 2) booting the > > affected packages or versions from the tree. > > >=20 > Or 3) Improve the mask message. > > For example, I think the major reason for the sys-libs/db mask is a > weird licensing issue. It's still nice to have it in the tree. If there is a weird licensing issue, it would be better to get the answers needed to resolve that issue and remove the mask. p.mask should never be permanent. William --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlOx1SkACgkQblQW9DDEZTjxdwCfX6lVMnVmv8iMIp5SWmjjJ4UR fYwAnj1cR2faBZ3auKmmVWBvUTHP6eoV =oxQc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--