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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Treeclean all maintainer-needed packages, was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:04:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8F35EC.40405@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimnhZ1Xjj+meRTickhDh_GOL7o-HdxGfj+=ZxGi@mail.gmail.com>

Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb:
>>> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for
>>> removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that
>>> one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't
>>> volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway.
>>>
>>>
>> Uhm no. The fact that nobody takes care of it doesn't necessarily mean
>> that the package is broken and that it should be removed
>>
>
> I never said that such packages were broken. I'm saying that if no one
> wants to maintain them, they probably aren't needed by anyone, and we
> should clean such cruft from the tree.
>
> If they *are* needed by someone, then those folks should come forward
> to maintain it.
>

The only such package I would like to see go is net-misc/mDNSResponder. 
And I am not convinced that having a maintainer listed in metadata.xml 
makes the package automatically non-cruft, or that orphaned packages are 
not at all cared about.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-27 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110326055210.E906D20054@flycatcher.gentoo.org>
2011-03-27  4:45 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml Jeremy Olexa
2011-03-27  7:47   ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 10:29     ` Markos Chandras
2011-03-27  9:39       ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 13:04         ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [this message]
2011-03-27 15:37         ` Ryan Hill
2011-03-27 13:30     ` Jeremy Olexa
2011-03-27 13:43       ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 19:17         ` Alec Warner
2011-03-27 19:40           ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 20:17             ` Alec Warner
2011-03-27 21:25               ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 23:34                 ` Ryan Hill
2011-03-28  1:59                   ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-27 20:44             ` Rich Freeman
2011-03-27 21:09               ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-28  1:58                 ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-27 21:28               ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2011-04-05  4:26                 ` Jeroen Roovers
2011-04-05 10:58                   ` Alec Warner
2011-04-05 15:08                     ` Jeroen Roovers
2011-04-18 17:56                   ` Andreas K. Huettel
2011-03-27 13:44       ` Rich Freeman
2011-03-27 14:54         ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-03-27 16:18           ` Rich Freeman
2011-03-27 14:08       ` Maintainership offering; was: " René 'Necoro' Neumann
2011-03-27 19:05         ` Jeremy Olexa
2011-03-27 20:20       ` Proxy maintainership of app-misc/pwsafe, was " Christopher Head
2011-03-27 20:47         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 20:55           ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2011-03-27 20:55           ` David Abbott
2011-03-27 21:32             ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-29 17:50       ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2011-03-29 13:33     ` Jeroen Roovers

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