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 1ONoAb-0006FJ-PZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:28:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C66DE0B66; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1-g21.free.fr (smtp1-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B81DE0B5F for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (unknown [78.192.105.75]) by smtp1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C909194014B for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:28:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C14EAD1.1010708@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:27:29 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UsOpbWkgQ2FyZG9uYQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise References: <20100613104143.4f61dbe7@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 284bd346-2ca3-43ff-9b73-1eb24cce7eae X-Archives-Hash: 6320feab3dd16b949e3165ef49448d37 Le 13/06/2010 14:07, Markos Chandras a =C3=A9crit : > If you start moving maintainer-needed package on Sunrise then Sunrise > will end up as a garbage collector overlay having many many ebuilds tha= t > nobody will actually maintain. If you care about maintainer-needed > package then step up and proxy maintain it. The delay ( which is not > that big if you cooperate with an active developer/herd ) might be a > drawback but still... I don't want sunrise to become a place where > abandoned ebuilds will end up.=20 +1, unmaintained ebuilds should just go away. We have to stop pretending to maintain an ebuild when no one does. Besides, everything we have is either in CVS or subversion, so nothing is lost. If anything, we should be advertising where deleted ebuilds are and how users can revive them if they want them. Cheers, R=C3=A9mi