From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NqOXH-0006Al-LP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:25:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00A0CE06CC; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDB0E0A8A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [83.146.207.236] (dyn-207-236-dsl.vsp.fi [83.146.207.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815FC1B4091 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B9B682E.7030709@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:25:50 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100309 Thunderbird/3.0.3 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> <20100312170731.603580e0@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100312170731.603580e0@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1f7926e7-c39f-4488-ae45-bd8b526f758f X-Archives-Hash: 86ce266a4a226e4251b0423574ad884b On 03/13/2010 01:07 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 > Ben de Groot wrote: > >> On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier wrote: >>> Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the >>> consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for >>> everyone. >> >> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's >> why we have a treecleaners project. > > The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and > removing them only if there is no other alternative. > > That's the ideal situation, unfortunately treecleaners is currently so understaffed it's not necessarily always true if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower So devs: Please join treecleaners project :)