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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:38:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5280A5B0.5020106@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5280A447.8050707@gentoo.org>

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11.11.2013 13:32, Manuel Rüger wrote:
> 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

+1, this should be documented IMO. I last-rite
games-strategy/seven-kingdoms-data recently without sending notice,
cause last versions of games-strategy/seven-kingdoms includes all of
it's data.

> 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).

We are trying not to break overlays, but we also can not guarantee full
support for them.

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
Gentoo Qt project lead
Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-11  9:32 [gentoo-dev] Package removal without proper last-riting Manuel Rüger
2013-11-11  9:38 ` Sergey Popov [this message]
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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