Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

[Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org>]

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24.03.2013 13:15, Róbert Čerňanský пишет:
> And that is why I now appeal to users:
> 
>   _Do not report bugs to Gentoo unless a package is completely broken._
> 
> Because what you will get in return?  Package removed.

If package is broken, upstream is dead/unresponsive and nobody wants or
can fix it - yeah, it will be treecleaned. Sooner or later. Cause we
should keep some QA standarts that are expected by users.

> A package with bugs has a greater user value than no package at all.
> Until Gentoo does not understands that and does not change its removal
> policy accordingly, and provides technical means to reflect it*, it is
> the only user-viable** way how to keep a package in the tree as long as
> possible.
> 
> * Which could be e. g. masking a package until it is completely
>   broken.
> 
> ** No, I do not want to become a developer.  No, I do not want to
>    maintain a package.  I am the user, I want using it.  (It does not
>    mean that I do not contribute to the community, I just have other
>    ways/projects to do so.)

If you, as user, want to use package that does not fullfill minimum QA
requirements, nobody can stop your from installing it from your local
overlay. You can not rely on support through bugzilla from that moment,
but if package was removed because lack of maintainership it does not
matter, does not it?

Main tree is not place for dead AND(not or, and!) not working packages.

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo Linux Developer
Desktop-effects project lead


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