From: "Manuel Rüger" <mrueg@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:32:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5280A447.8050707@gentoo.org> (raw)
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Hi,
I recently noticed it twice, that it seems to be common practice to
remove a package without using the methods described in [1], but just
dropping it from cvs.
From my observations packages removed without last-rites could be
characterized by this:
- it was a dependency of another package
- this package dropped / incorporated the dependency
- no other packages depend on it
- there are possible forks or updates, but maintainer doesn't care^W^W
has no interest
This might work for the main tree, but it won't for overlays, that might
also depend on these packages (because they have a patched / older
version of your maintained package).
Please stop killing user experience or document this "feature" in [1].
Best regards,
Manuel
[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html
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next reply other threads:[~2013-11-11 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-11 9:32 Manuel Rüger [this message]
2013-11-11 9:38 ` [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting Sergey Popov
2013-11-11 9:47 ` Michał Górny
2013-11-11 12:51 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-11-11 14:49 ` Thomas Kahle
2013-11-11 23:55 ` Dustin C. Hatch
2013-11-12 6:22 ` Sergey Popov
2013-11-14 3:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2013-11-14 19:45 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
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